A similar early release scheme in 2024 saw the release of 477 short-term inmates who had served at least 50% of their sentence. The prison population had been 8,232 before this initiative started in ...

Teresa Medhurst, chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, said the benefits of an early release scheme have now been ...

SCOTLAND’S jails stand “simmering on the brink of a crisis” amid a “near-record prison population,” the head of the Scottish ...

A Cabinet minister has said she felt Scotland was “treated as an after-thought” as no-fly zones over prisons came into force ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said Crown immunity for the prison service should be abolished, according to the lawyer representing the families of two young people who died in ...

An alarming spate of of boiling water attacks on Scots prison officers has sparked calls for a 'kettle ban' in jailhouses. There were a shocking eight incidents of boiling water being used to attack ...

The campaign comes after an inquiry into two deaths at a Scottish jail found a “catalogue of failures” in the prison system. A Scottish Labour MP has put forward plans to strip “untouchable” prison ...

Khalife's escape from HMP Wandsworth upped concerns about the consequences of overcrowding and understaffing in England's prisons. Now a new report has found identical issues are "entrenched" across ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is currently recruiting permanent and full-time plumbers and electricians to work within ...

OVER 500 members of staff in Scotland's prisons are off work due to the coronavirus outbreak. Bosses at the Scottish Prison Service have released new stats showing the impact of the bug amid the ...