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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Overcrowding is the biggest issue in Scotland’s prisons, the prison officers’ union has said. The comments come following reports that the prison population now exceeds the number locked up before the ...

A MURDERER stabbed a man through the heart after dousing him in boiling water and sugar. Gavin Gallagher, 34, hurled the ...