Experts have told The Herald there is now a “huge challenge” in recognising dementia in Scotland’s jails due to an ageing population.

A record number of prisons are overcrowded despite emergency release schemes freeing hundreds of prisoners early.

WARPED psychopath Luke Mitchell has got engaged behind bars to a woman campaigning for his freedom. The 36-year-old, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Jodi ...

The 36-year-old, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Midlothian schoolgirl Jodi Jones in 2003, is believed to have proposed to long-term partner Gemma Chapman in November.

The murderer began his relationship with his fiancée in 2005 and she has stood by him despite being locked up.

Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members awaiting deportation from the US have been transferred to a high-security mega-prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump's vow to crack down on ...

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in ...

Over 250 gang members have been brought to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) after the Trump administration defied a federal judge's ruling. This move is part of a larger ...

The Americans in the Venezuelan prison were confined to cement cells, beaten, pepper-sprayed and subjected to what one prisoner called “psychological torture.” Three months into their capture ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism ...

SAN SALVADOR — The crown jewel of El Salvador’s aggressive anti-crime strategy — a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed — became the latest tool in U.S ...

Tens of thousands of prisoners are locked up in rows of metal bunks at a jail where criminals are disposed of “without using the death penalty”. Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned ...