Foreign nationals sentenced to 12 months or more in prison are subject to automatic deportation, no matter where in the UK ...

The main three nationalities in Scottish jails are Albanians, Romanians and Poles and the most common offences include drugs, theft and robbery, and assault. In November there were 622 foreign ...

Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of Cornton Vale women's prison, said there should be ‘no males in female jails’ ...

Campaigners say the Scottish Prison Service opened the floodgates for violent trans ­prisoners to switch into female jails in ...

French lawmakers on Tuesday approved a sweeping counter-narcotics law to equip the state with tougher tools to fight a sharp ...

‘The Scottish Prison Service are looking at where they stand now and how their policies need to be revised. ‘It’s really easy, no males in female jails. That’s it. ‘There’s no ...

Scottish Tory shadow minister for equalities ... journey' given the crisis of staffing and overcrowding in Scotland’s jails. “It is vital that common sense prevails by prioritising the ...

A record number of people died in Scotland's prisons last year, according to major new research published today.