📣 Call for information: Has anything changed since January when researchers at Glasgow Uni published survey findings that suggested 81% of women musicians in the Scottish folk music scene have been sexually assaulted or harassed? The team want to hear from you! www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/%f...

🎤SCCJR has launch a new PhD podcast series called ‘Just Ask…’ Listen now! www.sccjr.ac.uk/project/sccj... 👏Thank you to @margueritesch.bsky.social @andy8chi.bsky.social @stevekirkwood.bsky.social for their support. Hosts @justrachelle.bsky.social & @karynmabon.bsky.social

Very sad news to hear yet another young person has died in Polmont. Daniel Kerr was just 19 years old.

A Giant on the Bridge is bloody brilliant. 🤩 If you get a chance to see it while they’re on tour across Scotland, it’s well worth it. www.ktproducing.co.uk/giant

10 YEARS! It has taken 10 years for the prison, for the crown and the police to apologise to the family of Allan Marshall. "This victory is not just for Allan, but for every family who has lost someone in custody and been denied justice.” news.stv.tv/east-central...

Prison service admits causing death of inmate through 'unlawful' restraint

Allan Marshall was restrained by 17 prison officers during a mental health crisis in 2015.

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This is a huge day for the family of Allan Marshall. The Crown, Scottish Prison Service & Police Scotland have publicly apologised, accepted his death was unlawful and accepted that the state failed to adequately investigate it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scottish Prison Service admits unlawful death of man in custody

Allan Marshall died four days after being restrained by prison officers at HMP Edinburgh in March 2015.

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Brilliant podcast episode following a prisons inspection on BBC Radio‘s File on 4 with Rex Bloomstein & Brian King. I‘ve read a few inspection reports in my time but never heard one! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

File on 4 Investigates - A Prison Inspector Calls - BBC Sounds

A unique insight into the many problems facing our prison system.

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👀 This is such a wild story. No system is perfect but when the justice system gets it wrong it can have a devastating effect on a person’s life.

CourtWatch@courtwatchproject.bsky.social · last yr.

One of our courtwatchers recently observed a shocking case of mistaken identity - whereby someone arrested for drunk driving didn’t give their own name, but instead the name and birthday of someone else. The drunk driver was sentenced in court still using the other person’s identity. 🧵[1/12]

“I am disappointed the sergeant didn’t ask if I was OK, or offer any condolences, after my friend died. I have never felt as dehumanized as I do in this moment, required to saunter alone, dejected, along the frosty breezeway.”

Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · last yr.

I Watched My Friend Die in Prison

🎤 Baroness Sue Black and Dr Angela Gallop talk about the breakdown of forensic science and how it’s led to miscarriages of justice. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Oooft!! Prof. Angela Gallop does not mince her words. “Like a plane hurtling downwards in what has become known as a ‘graveyard spiral’, with the pilot in desperation making increasingly erratic decisions, it can only be a short time now before it impacts the ground.” bit.ly/forensic-moj

Miscarriages of justice more likely due to forensic science crisis, report finds

Inquiry warns of rising risk in England and Wales of biased investigations, wrongful convictions and cases collapsing due to missing evidence

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This has sadly been going on for years in E&W and it impacts not just current criminal cases but also those where someone has been wrongly convicted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands of criminal cases collapsing due to missing or lost police evidence

More than 30,000 prosecutions in England and Wales collapsed in four years, data obtained by BBC shows.

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Michael Mansfield KC said: "The appellant submits that this is a straightforward case in which this court must conclude that these convictions are unsafe." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Colin Campbell appeal 'straightforward', Court of Appeal told

Colin Campbell was found guilty of killing four women and trying to kill a fifth in 2008.

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🎧 Listening to the Death County podcast on deaths in custody at Dauphin Prison in Pennsylvania. It reveals corruption and negligence but it also shows the power of community voice and action. Great listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Death County, PA

True Crime Podcast · Weekly series · Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his life. But when his young cousin dies in that same jail, he learns...

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💔 Sadly there are more people like Peter Sullivan inside prison right now serving time for crimes they did not commit. @insidejustice.bsky.social receives 1,000 applications every year in the UK from people desperate for their help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Sullivan: Man jailed for 1986 murder has conviction quashed

Peter Sullivan, 68, says he is

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Major new report out today from SCCJR on the number of deaths in custody. ❗️Prison deaths in Scotland have surged to 64 in the last year. bit.ly/deaths-in-cu... Watch this short video to find out the key stats👇

Of all the things they could do to make prisons safer they chose stun guns🔫 🤦🏻‍♀️ What could possibly go wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tasers in prisons to be trialled after Hashem Abedi attack

The justice secretary says the use of electric stun guns will be tested following an attack on prison staff.

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If the new HMP Glasgow was built and in operation today it would still be overcrowded. Make it make sense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn

The replacement HMP Glasgow will open in 2028, three years later than originally planned.

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It was an absolute joy to speak with Rachelle Cobain @justrachelle.bsky.social about the new book 'The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation' @watersidepress.bsky.social on Just Humans @thesccjr.bsky.social Thanks for listening!

Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research@thesccjr.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎧 NEW EPISODE OF JUST HUMANS OUT! Dr Kirstin Anderson talks to Rachelle Cobain about a new book she’s edited called 'The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation'. 1/2 Listen now bit.ly/barlinnie-SU @kir-anderson.bsky.social @edinburghnapier.bsky.social @justrachelle.bsky.social

‘Catalogue of failures led to young prisoner deaths.’ The sheriff has made 25 recommendations, but what we really need is for young people like Katie and William not to be sent to prison at all, and for a change in the law to address Crown immunity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Catalogue of failures led to young prisoner deaths at Polmont, says sheriff

A fatal accident inquiry concludes that Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, may not have died if reasonable precautions had been taken.

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📖 What else do you buy a criminology geek like me for Christmas? I’ve got the best maw-in-law ever! 🎅🤶🎁

If you’re in Ayr anytime soon check out the new Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition at Rozelle House. My favourite was this very old table from Tam o’Shanter’s pub, complete with menti’s carved into the wood.

“It could happen to any of us.” Interesting discussion on miscarriages of justice like Andy Malkinson’s, compensation, how the CCRC is meant to work and why it’s been so heavily criticised recently. #miscarriageofjustice #law #crime #justice www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Law Show - Miscarriages of justice and the CCRC - BBC Sounds

The CCRC was criticised over serious miscarriages of justice, but how does it work?

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Chuffed to bits to be back with Season 4 of the Just Humans podcast.

Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research@thesccjr.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎧 We're back! The one and only Gemma Flynn joins us to talk about her new zine which explores the case of rapper, Young Thug and why he's at the centre of Georgia's longest criminal trial. Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify and our website bit.ly/47P2U24 #youngthug #criminology #rap #prison

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