Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a "record prison expansion", Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails. Ms Mahmood also ...

ATTENTION-seeking hoods were last night warned sharing films of their terrifying firebombings could backfire — as cops ramp ...

President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, the phenomenon of men disappearing into prisons is all too familiar.

A map showing all major developments related to renewable energy in the Scottish Highlands has gone live. The digital feature on the Highland Council website shows what already exists on the ...

THE Scottish Government has responded to the interim guidance from the UK’s equality watchdog on single sex spaces ...

It is of real concern that the mortality rate in our prisons has more than doubled in the last decade and is now among the ...

But she said there were issues with "organisational culture" in Scottish prisons and that there needed to be a move away from treating the level of deaths as normal. Katie Allan's mother ...

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

Credit: ITV Border. Parents who were locked in a two-year battle with Scottish Borders Council over the use of gender neutral toilets at Earlston Primary School say the ordeal forced them to take ...

PRISON officers are still facing disciplinary action if they call male transgender inmates "he" or "him", MSPs were told. Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay made the claim at Holyrood as he hit ...

“So will John Swinney now instruct the Scottish Prison Service to ensure male prisoners do their time in men's prisons?” Mr Swinney replied: “As the Government has set out to Parliament ...