The Prison Officers' Association blamed the influence of organised criminal gangs operating behind bars for deteriorating ...

Police are hunting to trace a missing prisoner after he failed to return to an open jail. James Fitzpatrick, 36, was reported ...

VIOLENT criminals, weapons thugs and drug users are among the prisoners released by mistake from Scotland’s jails – with one ...

Scottish jails resemble “a mini UN conference”, an academic has claimed, amid calls to deport foreign criminals to ease overcrowding. Jim Watson, a criminal justice lecturer at the University of the ...

A major new research study has found the number of people dying in prison surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60% increase on the previous year, making Scotland's mortality rate among the ...

The Assesses Capacity Tolerance (ACT) data has revealed that HMP Barlinnie, HMP Edinburgh, HMP Glenochil, HMP Inverness, HMP ...

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 ...

The Prison Officers Association said prison officers ‘cannot go on’ as they have this year, with overcrowding and ...

The public has been urged to contact the police with any information relating to the whereabouts of an absconded prisoner.

Some of Scotland's most notorious criminals have passed though its doors for over 100 years - and now Barlinnie Prison is to be recognised as one of Scotland's most significant buildings. The late ...

A masculine-presenting cis woman in Scotland was misgendered and mistakenly sent to a men’s prison, news outlets in the U.K. report. “It was only when the more thorough search was carried out by ...