Alistair Grant

@alistairkgrant.bsky.social

Journalist. Political editor of The Scotsman.

🔴 Inside Barlinnie: How Scotland's largest prison is hanging by a thread An eye-opening visit to Barlinnie earlier this week, where I interviewed governor Michael Stoney and saw inside E block, which houses 310 sex offenders (design capacity 186): www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Inside Barlinnie: How Scotland's largest prison is hanging by a thread

The Scotland on Sunday goes behind bars to discover the real impact of prison overcrowding

scotsman.com

Can’t quite believe how long it’s taken me to get to this, particularly given how much I would have loved it as a teenager (I’ve seen the film), but just finished the audiobook of this and man was it good.

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Amnesty International UK says the report that labelled JK Rowling’s Beira’s Place and For Women Scotland “anti-rights groups” was uploaded to its website “without going through the established internal review processes”:

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