🎤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...

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...

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/...

👀 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.

“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.”

🎤 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

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...

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...

🎧 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...

💔 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...

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...

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...

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!

‘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...

📖 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/...

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

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