Six men have been found guilty of a series of suspected gangland attacks including setting the cars of prison officers on ...

A 92-year-old former railway worker has been sentenced to life in a British prison for raping and murdering a woman in 1967.

Prison inspectors found that overcrowding and its impacts were the” primary concerns” and warned it breaches UN rules. Ever ...

Shock figures reveal a prison officer was assaulted by an inmate almost every day while on duty in Scotland’s increasingly violent jails. Scottish Prison Service data shows 350 officers were attacked ...

Phillips also failed to disclose to the council that Lloyd had moved into his home on Birch Gardens in St Helens during 2018, enabling him to continue to claim £13,633.67 in housing benefits and ...

The Housing (Scotland) Bill currently going through the Scottish parliament will introduce an ‘ask and act’ duty on social landlords and key parts of the public sector, including health, police and ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has been urged to change its rules to ensure jails are single-sex spaces after Wednesday's landmark Supreme Court ruling. Judges unanimously decided the definition of ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) notes the 143-year-old prison regularly houses more than 1,300 inmates despite its design capacity for 987.

The Scottish Government could be in breach of international law through its handling of inmate social care, according to a care expert, as the prison service struggles to look after an ageing ...

Scotland’s prisons housed almost 8,000 prisoners every day in 2024 — a 6% increase on the previous year, according to its government statistics. “In line with trends seen elsewhere in the U ...

Hundreds of inmates are soon to be released from jail in Scotland as new legislation designed to relieve prison overcrowding comes into force. Nearly 400 prisoners will walk free over the next six ...