The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) says the technique will reduce injuries among prison officers and inmates following three ...

The population remains stubbornly high despite the fact that hundreds of prisoners have been freed early since November.

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

Hundreds of prisoners were subsequently released.

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 ...

WEAPONS seized in Scots prisons hit more than 1,300 over two years amid dangerous overcrowding. A huge surge in confiscations ...

Prisoners at privately run HMP Addiewell post videos from their cells, showing men apparently out of their nut on Spice and ...

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 recorded its highest yearly number of deaths in prison custody, according to statistics published by the Scottish ...

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

Scotland's prison population has reached a record high. The number of people in custody has been rising for many months and on Tuesday hit 8,430. That number surpasses the previous record of 8,420 set ...