HOLYROOD is facing demands to match “warm words” with “concrete actions” after a report repeated serious, long-standing human rights concerns in Scotland’s prisons and secure care settings. The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has written to Scotland’s Justice Secretary Neil Gray after the publication of a damning report on the Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture into the country’s prisons and secure care settings. Publishing a letter to Mr Gray slamming “state inaction,” SHRC chair Professor Angela O’Hagan said: “Behind these report findings are people in the total control of the state, relying on it to meet their most basic human rights. “In 2024 we evidenced that 83 per cent of recommendations from international human rights bodies remained unaddressed. “This visit shows why that matters and warm words on human rights must be matched by urgent, concrete action.