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Decision Report 201400316

  • Case ref:
    201400316
  • Date:
    July 2014
  • Body:
    Scottish Prison Service
  • Sector:
    Prisons
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    transfer to another prison

Summary

Mr C, who is a prisoner, complained to us that the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) had failed to transfer him to an appropriate prison.

Our investigation found that the SPS were entitled to hold Mr C in the prison he was currently in, and we did not uphold his complaint. The SPS also told us, however, that they had agreed that Mr C would transfer to a more appropriate prison when a suitable time to do that was identified.

Updated: March 13, 2018