Scotland says transgender prisoners with violent pasts will not go to women’s jails

Justice secretary pauses transfer of all transgender prisoners after outrage about rapist Isla Bryson being sent to all-female prison

No transgender prisoner with a history of violence against women will be accommodated in a women's prison, Scotland's justice secretary has announced, as the country's prison service announced an urgent review of all transgender inmates.

It comes two days after Nicola Sturgeon said she did not favour a blanket approach" to transgender prisoners, and amid growing pressure on her government after reports that another violent transgender prisoner had been approved for transfer into the female prison estate.