Between 260 to 390 prisoners will be eligible for release under the latest move to tackle overcrowding in jails.

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

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

A unique and groundbreaking exhibition from Fife College, Connections: Beyond, is set to open later this month.

A plasterer who acted as a 'wages' paymaster to elite gangsters has died behind bars. Gerard McTaggart passed away in HMP Edinburgh on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. In 2023, we reported how the ...

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

That is a total dereliction of duty at a time when the SNP are about to release hundreds of dangerous prisoners due to their failure to invest in Scotland's prison estate over 18 years in power.

The Scottish Government said the mass release would take place next month in a bid to ease pressure on crowded jails. A new law means short-term prisoners will be let out after serving only 40 per ...

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

A Scots money launderer who delivered wages to gangsters has died in jail. . Gerard McTaggart, 49, was jailed for four years ...

An ex-football coach who was jailed for abusing four schoolboys has died in jail. Kenneth Divers, 80, was jailed in June, ...