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Segregation used to ‘manage’ mentally ill women prisoners in distress – report 08/07/2021, 12:05 am
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland looked at the treatment of female prisoners with mental health problems (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Scotland’s only all female prison appears to be using segregation as a way to manage “high levels of distress” experienced by inmates with complex mental health problems, a new report has claimed.
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland looked at the treatment of prisoners with complex mental health problems, and found some were experiencing up to 82 days in segregation.
This could see women spending some 22 hours a day in cells in Cornton Vale Prison, which were described as “sparse and lacking in comfort”.