The 53-year-old head of security at Les Nicolles prison in Guernsey has been convicted of indecent behaviour towards a ...

Jordan Burns made several attempts to take his own life during 10 months as an unconvicted remand prisoner at Scotland’s HMP ...

Two Scottish groups calling for fairness in the justice system have launched separate campaigning initiatives. NOLR, a group ...

An investigation into the death of a prisoner at HMP The Mount has raised serious concerns about the ongoing supply of drugs, ...

Eight prisoners at HMP Addiewell were rushed to hospital in the space of 24 hours after apparently taking ‘pink cocaine’. The ...

Restricted regimes and self-harm at Eastwood Park women’s prison are a matter of “concern”, the jail’s Independent Monitoring ...

A unique exhibition is shining a spotlight on miscarriages of justice – with a display of hand-sculpted busts of men and women who have been wrongly convicted over the centuries. The artist and ...

The Scottish Government is considering a proposal to let prisoners remain on GP lists whilst serving their jail time. The ...

Private cash allocations for prisoners have been increased, meaning that those who have money sent to them by family and ...

Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds words to its publication that it says reflect changes in our language. In ...

What shocks me is the self-harm rate in this prison. It is disgusting. Some women cut their arms for attention, but the ...

Keeping prisoners in police cells under the emergency Operation Safeguard scheme costs four times more than keeping them in ...