The families of two young people who died in Polmont Young Offenders Institution are set to meet with senior prison service ...

MSPs passed a law meaning those sentenced to under four years in prison will now be released after serving 40 per cent of ...

Scottish Government policy allows eligible inmates sentenced to less than four years to be released after serving 40% of ...

Scotland's chief inspector of prisons has drawn comparisons between the notorious Strangeways riot and the overcrowding crisis in the ...

Donald Trump was briefed by Sir Keir Starmer on the arrest of three people the US president called “terrorists” over alleged ...

Ms Constance met the families of Ms Allan and William – who was also known as William Lindsay – prior to the statement and ...

Most Scottish people oppose measures to release prisoners early from jail to deal with overcrowding, a new poll has revealed. Only 28 per cent said they are in favour of the policy, which was ...

Scottish Prison Service is looking for people to join the teams in electrical, mechanical, joiner and systems maintenance ...

An activist group which helped create controversial Scottish Prison Service trans guidance is majority funded by the taxpayer to the tune of more than half a million pounds, The Mail on Sunday can ...

The prison population in Scotland's jails is at near record levels. Government ministers, governors and inspectors have described the system as "bursting at the seams". Scotland's prisons are only ...

The Scottish Prison Service is investigating complaints that a senior manager allegedly clapped along to pro-IRA chants at a ...

Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, died within months of each other in 2018 at Polmont YOI, run by the Scottish Prison Service. Ms Allan, a student at Glasgow University, was found dead on ...