Figures from the Ministry of Justice show 228 assaults were recorded at Wakefield prison the year to September – up from 222 the year before and the highest figure over the last five years. This ...

Swinney insists he wants to make sure there is a replacement prison that is safe and secure. We now know the replacement for ...

Kier has secured a £683.8m ($853.9m) contract from the Scottish Government to build a new prison in Glasgow, aimed at ...

SNP accused of squandering money on jail akin to a ‘luxury resort or nature reserve’ after costs surge from £100m estimate ...

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay hit out after it was revealed this week that the estimated cost of the jail had ...

Angela Constance, the party’s justice secretary, blamed inflation for the massive price rise amid accusations of ‘financial ...

Urfan Sharif was transferred to HMP Frankland in County Durham after being attacked with a makeshift "jagged tuna lid" knife ...

The cost of HMP Glasgow has more than doubled from its 2019 estimate of £400m to £998.4m. This is nearly 10 times the ...

An investigation into the death of an inmate at Kirkham Prison found he had a stash of illicit drugs in his cell - but they ...

Kier has formally signed the main construction contract on a new £684m prison scheme in Scotland that will replace the ...