The Independent Prison Monitors (IPMs) in Scotland have published their latest annual reports, detailing their findings from ...

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

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

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 ...

A Scottish Prison Service spokeswoman said: “Our staff are our greatest asset. Every day, prison officers do outstanding work in the most challenging circumstances, ...

Jamie Greene MSP says the appalling condition of HMP Greenock, and the state of the town's police office and Inverclyde's fire stations, is ...

The gang’s targets included a man who told how his hand was left “hanging off” having been ambushed with blades. The crimes, ...

Robert Paterson believed guard put his life at risk after he swallowed seven bags of cocaine by delaying taking him to ...

Several clips have been uploaded to an Instagram account in recent days of an inmate at a Scots prison in a black balaclava ...

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

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

Thomas Robinson falsely claimed his Wee Tea Plantation business was growing its own tea at a Perthshire estate ...