Marquis Jamal Ray is accused of smuggling drugs into the Scotland Correctional Institution, where he worked in maintenance.

The video, which is believed to have been filmed within Saughton Prison, was posted online on Sunday, July 6, showing six ...

Deaths in Scotland's prisons have increased by 60% in the past year, a report has revealed. The Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research (SCCJR) found 64 people died in jail in 2024 - up from ...

When an Irish judge blocked a man's extradition to Scotland on humanitarian grounds, it raised questions about the state of Scotland's prisons. Mr Justice Paul McDermott said Richard Sharples ...

A paramedic has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after secretly administering an abortion drug to a woman who ...

Ryan Coutts died at HMP Addiewell on July 11, aged 36. Coutts, who had an extensive criminal record, was jailed in 2019 for ...

HMP Glasgow will cost almost 10-times the original £100million estimate when it finally opens years late, the Scottish Government admitted.

The Scotsman’s Rural Affairs correspondent, Katharine Hay, has undertaken an epic walk around Scotland, meeting people, and ...

The tree, which stood in a picturesque dip along Hadrian’s Wall, the 70-mile fortification that once guarded the northern ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said Crown immunity for the prison service should be abolished, according to the lawyer representing the families of two young people who died in ...

Criminals are to be released from Scotland’s prisons after serving only 40 per cent of their sentences, under “dangerous” SNP plans to ease chronic overcrowding. Angela Constance, the SNP ...

Scottish prisons are putting lives at risk after failing to implement crucial human rights recommendations called for more than 30-years ago.