The late 19th Century and early 20th Century phases of the Glasgow prison have been recognised by Historic Environment ...

Overcrowding problems at Barlinnie Prison's are not likely to disappear due to erly release and the building of new prisons.

The report warns that long periods of near-solitary confinement are commonplace and breach United Nations standards.

HUMAN rights of remand prisoners in Scotland are not routinely being respected, a report finds. A report from the HM ...

Despite the ‘presumption’ against custodial sentences of 12 months or less, they still make up around 73 per cent of the total ...

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 ...

COMMUNITIES will pay the price as another 1,000 inmates are let out early to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis, it has ...

It’s Scotland’s largest prison and has housed some of the country’s most high-profile prisoners for over one hundred years.

Outlining the joint campaign with the Scottish Police Federation, ‘Assault The Police? No Early Release’, Mr Hay told the Justice Secretary that the Scottish government needs to do more to support ...

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 Scottish Prison Service (SPS) was forced to apologise after prison staff hung up the phone on telephone service NHS 24 ...