Over the past year, SPARC has been quietly building capacity, responding to growing demand, and using individual advocacy to expose

Securing insurance, whether for a car, home, or business, should be routine. Yet many people with a criminal record in

SPARC campaigns for a reduction in Scottish prison numbers and to promote social justice. We comprise researchers from various universities

Recently a number of news outlets covered the story that young people in HMP Polmont who had been given mobile

Most of us don’t change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises

The prison population seems to have fallen in the absence of formal action to reduce it. What has happened and

SPARC have carefully read (and provided a plain language summary below of) the amendments to the Prison Rules in Scotland,

Yesterday, the Scottish Government has released a Covid-19 related Bill. Amongst other issues, the Bill set out (inSchedule 4, Part

SPARC is deeply troubled about the lack of speed and clarity about the response to Covid 19 in Scottish prisons.

Yesterday it was confirmed that two people in prison at HMP Kilmarnock were in self-isolation with the first suspected cases