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Scottish Prison Service

SPSO (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman) Not Upheld Reference 201103648 Sector Prisons Category transfer to another prison Decided 01 May 2012

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Mr C, who is a prisoner, complained because he did not want to be located in a prison or a regime with sex offenders (which his prison was). He said he did not need to be in that prison and it was unfair to locate him there. Mr C said he wanted to be transferred to a mainstream prison. Because of Mr C's offence, however, he could not be located with other mainstream prisoners.

We found that the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) have identified individual prison establishments that are responsible for the management of certain categories of prisoners. In Mr C's case, the SPS appropriately located him in the prison that were responsible for managing prisoners of his category.

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