Since 2021, 128 prison employees have been dismissed due to ‘mental ill health,’ as the number of altercations involving prisoners has risen.

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

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

With less than a year to the Scottish Parliament elections, politicians are starting to realise that most people do not believe that a man who says he is a woman has changed his sex ...

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

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

The High Court in Edinburgh heard Robert Paterson plotted the ‘revenge’ assault because he believed the guard had put his ...

FREEING criminals from jail after just 15 per cent of their sentence will “erode trust” in justice, a charity has warned. Victim Support Scotland has hit out at a new law allowing cons to be ...

A convicted murderer has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after ordering a revenge gun attack on a prison officer. Robert ...

Prison overcrowding remains a critical challenge in one-third of European prison administrations, according to the Council of ...

US President Donald Trump plans to travel to Scotland next week, officials in Washington confirmed on Thursday. Trump is ...

The video was posted just two days after the joint funeral of Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan who were gunned down in the Spanish city of Fuengirola earlier this year.