Lawyers for the Scottish government said moving trans woman prisoners to male-only jails would create an 'unacceptable risk ...

The government has argued having a "blanket rule" for where prisoners are housed could breach human rights law.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The measure is intended to ease overcrowding in Scottish prisons - Danny Lawson/PA Prisoners are to be released even earlier from ...

Aidan O’Neill KC, who is representing FWS, suggested to the Court of Session on Tuesday morning that the Scottish government was doubling down as ‘a political calculation’ and that women locked up ...

More than 300 staff resigned from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) between April 2021 and January 2026 due to mental or physical ailments.

A PRISON guard has been arrested and charged over her alleged relationship with an inmate at Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie ...

Three prison staff were unfairly dismissed after a “fundamentally flawed” investigation into claims they attacked an inmate, ...

A NATS MSP wants to ease the pressure on Scotland’s overcrowded jails — by deporting foreign inmates to Kosovo. Kenny Gibson suggested non-Scots inmates could serve out their prison stretches in ...