Some Scottish prisons have been described as “dangerously out of control” in a report produced by the Criminal Justice ...

A Giant on the Bridge, performed by a ‘Scottish indie folk supergroup’, draws on dozens of interviews about the confines former prisoners experience on the outside ...

THE “systemic failure of health provision” is at the root of the drugs crisis facing Scotland’s prisons, according to ...

The police, fire service and prison service had all asked for extra funding to strengthen their numbers and resources.

Ex-prison governor says there are ‘no women’s prisons in Scotland’ - Rhona Hotchkiss criticised the Scottish Prison Services’ ...

An SNP MSP has accused the Scottish Government of “appalling” actions over the Supreme Court’s single-sex spaces ruling.

The number of people in Scotland's prisons has risen back above the level which sparked the early release of hundreds of inmates to free up space. More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving ...

The SNP has launched a secret legal bid to keep biological men in women’s prisons by forcing a change to the Equality Act.

Labour MSP Katy Clark says Scottish budget was "a missed opportunity to invest in Scotland's police, prisons and fire and rescue service".

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has confirmed that there have 27 been “liberations in error”, where people have been ...

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 ...