The Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland had made the request that full body-searching of female inmates should end.
After an inspection of a new £85 million “therapeutic” jail, the Scottish Prison Service has been urged to end routine body-searching of female inmates.
The community custody units, Bella in Dundee and Lilias in Glasgow, both opened in 2022 to provide women nearing the end of their sentences with "real life" skills for independent living. Staff were praised as being “caring and compassionate”, however concerns were raised over late arriving inmates who were kept under observation by staff without clinical training until they could be assessed by a health worker the next day.
However she called for an end to “random searching” of prisoners, branding it “disproportionate” and “undermining” the trauma-informed approach. “The buildings and culture are developing into an excellent therapeutic model, and it is unfortunate that population pressures and the resultant churn prevent many women from benefiting fully from such a resource.
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