The population remains stubbornly high despite the fact that hundreds of prisoners have been freed early since November.

Hundreds of prisoners were subsequently released.

Scotland recorded its highest yearly number of deaths in prison custody, according to statistics published by the Scottish ...

The Scottish Prison Service confirmed the 28-year-old died at Saughton prison on Friday.

LONDON — Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded prisons across the United Kingdom. “We have been managing an ...

Prisoners at privately run HMP Addiewell post videos from their cells, showing men apparently out of their nut on Spice and ...

William Brown, 16, and Katie Allan, 21, took their own lives in Polmont Young Offenders Institution Deaths in Scotland's prisons have increased by 60% in the past year, a report has revealed. The ...

A blanket ruling that transgender offenders can only be placed in a prison that matches their sex at birth risks violating the rights of some inmates, the Scottish Government insists. Ministers ...

Reform UK Scotland to launch ‘unashamedly ambitious’ Holyrood manifesto - The party’s plan is to reintroduce North Sea oil ...

As Scotland grapples with overcrowded prisons by introducing another wave of emergency early releases, the country’s authorities have increased sentence lengths for one particular group of ...