1. Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 4 in private.

2. Emergency release of prisoners and other key challenges in Scotland’s prisons

The Committee will take evidence from—

• Professor Sarah Armstrong
  Professor of Criminology
  University of Glasgow
• Kate Wallace
  Chief Executive Officer
  Victim Support Scotland
• Lynsey Smith
  Chair of the Justice Standing Committee
  Social Work Scotland

and then from -

• Wendy Sinclair-Gieben
  HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland
  HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland
• Phil Fairlie
  Deputy General Secretary
  Prison Officers Association Scotland
• Paula Arnold
  Governor, HMP and YOI Stirling, Vice Chair
  Prison Governors Association (Scotland)
• Ian Bryce
  Legal Vice Chair
  Parole Board for Scotland

3. Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider the following negative instrument—

Sheriff (Removal from Office) Order 2024 (SSI 2024/148)

4. Emergency release of prisoners and other key challenges in Scotland’s prisons

The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 2.