A second prisoner has died in a Scottish prison - days after a 19-year-old died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution. The ...

An early release scheme intended to relieve prison overcrowding in Scotland saw 40 per cent of eligible prisoners blocked ...

LONDON — Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded prisons across the United Kingdom. “We have been managing an ...

Scotland’s human rights watchdog has urged ministers to “prioritise” talks on rewriting the prison service’s transgender policy, warning ...

Eve Graham was told by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) her abuser was going to be released within 24 hours — which turned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons has hit a record high, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said. There were 8,430 people behind bars on Tuesday, above the previous high of 8,420, with the ...

The judge who is considering a legal challenge to the Scottish Government’s policy on managing transgender prisoners has risen from the bench, saying she will need time to examine the complex legal ...

A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial review next month. Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of now-closed HMP ...