A similar early release scheme in 2024 saw the release of 477 short-term inmates who had served at least 50% of their ...

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

Scotland’s prison population has risen above the level that triggered the early release of hundreds of inmates earlier this year, with warnings that numbers could soon reach record highs. In February ...

The jailing of hundreds of Scottish gangsters has left prison staff playing what has been described as "a daily game of chess" as they try to keep violent rivals apart. The Scottish Prison Service ...

The use of lifelong sentences by Scottish courts could result in "inhuman and degrading" treatment, human rights campaigners ...

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

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

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 ...

A FORMER Police Scotland call handler has been given a prison sentence after passing on information to a drug dealer pal.

Prior to Covid, remand levels in prisons were between 15% to 17%. Since the pandemic, it has remained “stubbornly high”, ...