Justice

Police given powers to enforce social distancing rules ‘as early as today’

The FM has announced police will soon enforce restrictions on people staying at home

Howard League Scotland calls for release of low-risk prisoners

Scotland’s independent penal reform organisation has written to Humza Yousaf calling for the “executive release” of some prisoners

Justice Committee to investigate overcrowding in Scottish prisons

Losing sight of women’s rights: policy capture and public policy

Prison overcrowding needs ‘immediate action’, Howard League Scotland warns

MPs to take UK Government to court over power to suspend parliament ahead of Brexit

Tackling Scotland's drug crisis needs to be put ahead of political point-scoring

Scotland's public health minister calls for 'urgent' meeting with Sajid Javid on drugs crisis

Who owns the drug problem, and who is to be bold?

Dog control laws not fit for purpose, warn MSPs

Cross-party call for 'radical action' on drug deaths

Death from drugs reaches highest ever level

Lord Advocate 'simply cannot' approve safe injecting rooms without drug law reform

Humza Yousaf welcomes Police Scotland Brexit contingency plans

Golden eagle adopted by Green MSP Andy Wightman disappears in Highland Perthshire

Justice Committee to consider proposals for biometrics commissioner

Scottish council leaders pledge to continue supporting refugees under new resettlement scheme

Scottish Government launches consultation on reform of legal aid

First pay-outs made to Glasgow equal pay claimants

Management of Offenders Bill passed by Scottish Parliament

Bill to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples

Public inquiry to probe Islamophobia in Scotland

Natalie McGarry's sentencing exposed Scotland's judicial priorities

Young prisoners to have phones installed in their cells under pilot

New statutory duty to report human trafficking could support more vulnerable people

New police investigations and review commissioner appointed