The number of people in Scotland’s prisons is now higher than before the early release scheme implemented earlier this year.

Conditions in Scotland’s largest jail are “shameful”, a senior prisons official has said. HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow has been ...

The Scottish Government will contest For Women Scotland’s legal bid to strike down schools and prisons guidance on transgender rights.

William Henderson's loved ones had previously described him as 'one of life's good guys' and 'one in a million'.

A TEENAGE footballer who left a stranger permanently impaired after battering him in a street has been caged and told he faces a substantial jail term. Ciaran Dalrymple, 19, punched victim Derry ...

Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi has filed a fresh application before a UK court in a bid to delay his extradition to India, ...

Ross 'Miami' McGill, Steven Lyons, Steven Jamieson and Steven Larwood, all from Glasgow, as well as a fifth man believed to ...

Billy Ferris, jailed in 2003 for the savage murder of 15-year-old Jason Hutchison, has died aged 75, prison chiefs confirmed.

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence.

NOTORIOUS double killer Billy Ferris – brother of ex-gangland kingpin Paul – has died behind bars. The Scottish Prison Service confirmed that Ferris, 75, passed away in custody at HMP ...