Conditions in Scotland’s largest jail are “shameful”, a senior prisons official has said. HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow has been ...

An alarming rise in boiling water attacks on Scots prison officers has sparked calls for a 'kettle ban' at prisons.

Prior to Covid, remand levels in prisons were between 15% to 17%. Since the pandemic, it has remained “stubbornly high”, ...

A similar early release scheme in 2024 saw the release of 477 short-term inmates who had served at least 50% of their ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons is now higher than before the early release scheme implemented earlier this year.

Plans to build a prison worth almost a billion pounds in Glasgow before replacing Greenock’s crumbling 115-year-old jail have been slammed by ...

NOTORIOUS double killer Billy Ferris – brother of ex-gangland kingpin Paul – has died behind bars. The Scottish Prison Service confirmed that Ferris, 75, passed away in custody at HMP ...

William Henderson's loved ones had previously described him as 'one of life's good guys' and 'one in a million'; after the ...