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

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 ...

East Renfrewshire MP Blair McDougall has appeared in Amer Anwar’s BBC show ‘The Firm’. The second episode of the show, which is dubbed as an “access all areas” look at “one of Scotland’s highest ...

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

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

Edinburgh gangland boss Mark Richardson's henchman, Michael Heeps, arranged a drug deal that ripped off Dubai-based Ross ...

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

Scotland Correctional Institution inmates are no longer going without air conditioning. North Carolina Department of Adult ...

A man who tried to murder his estranged wife by driving over her twice with his car has had his prison sentence increased following a successful Crown appeal. William Budge was previously jailed for s ...

Six men have been found guilty of a series of suspected gangland attacks including setting the cars of prison officers on fire outside a jail. Michael Heeps, John Murray, Lee Ridgway, Dale Bauld, ...

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

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