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

The number of people in Scotland's prisons has risen back above the level which sparked the early release of hundreds of inmates to free up space. More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving ...

A second prisoner has died in a Scottish prison - days after a 19-year-old died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution. The ...

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

A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial review next month. Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of now-closed HMP ...

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

WEAPONS seized in Scots prisons hit more than 1,300 over two years amid dangerous overcrowding. A huge surge in confiscations ...

Hundreds of prisoners were subsequently released.

Scotland's prison population has reached a record high. The number of people in custody has been rising for many months and on Tuesday hit 8,430. That number surpasses the previous record of 8,420 set ...