SNP ministers have admitted they support sending foreign criminals back to their home countries to ease the overcrowding ...

Scotland’s Independent Prison Monitor (IPM) teams have published their annual reports on every jail in the country.  There ...

The High Court in Edinburgh heard Robert Paterson plotted the ‘revenge’ assault because he believed the guard had put his ...

A convicted murderer who plotted a vengeful gun attack on a prison guard has been given a sentence of more than 10 years.

There is no ban on the sale and purchase of sex. But soliciting in public and running a brothel are against the law. Buyers ...

In her new biography of Mary,, Herald columnist Rosemary Goring covers the long years she spent in captivity in England. It was, ...

A BOSS at Scotland’s biggest prison is being investigated over claims they splashed out on an air fryer for an inmate.

A prison governor has suggested that elderly prisoners could be moved to care homes in the community, to meet their needs ...

Campaigners threaten legal action unless Scottish Government restricts access to female toilets to biological women within seven days.

A thug caged over a series of gangland attacks this week has been named as the man who ordered the drug deal that sparked ...

The rot in the NCoS predates the current Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. Nigeria’s prisons have become notorious ...

The string of attacks - which also involved torching the cars of prison officers at HMP Addiewell - were carried out in and ...