The Scottish Prison Service today said bunk beds have been removed from prison cells as part off a commitment to rapid and ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has accepted the 25 recommendations made following a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the ...

Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, took their own lives in separate incidents at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in ...

A new series provides a rare look into two of Scotland’s prisons which house women – HMP and YOI Grampian in Peterhead which ...

MacLeod and his evil dad, Ian ‘Bronco’ Macleod were branded “cowardly monsters" by a judge last year after they were found ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service has apologised to the families of two young people who took their own lives – just months apart – inside the country’s largest young offenders institution.

The Scottish Prison Service has apologised to the families of Katie Allan and William Lindsay, who took their own lives in Polmont Young Offenders’ Institute and committed to preventing further ...

A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase capacity.

Scotland’s new £1 billion super-prison could be like a “Costa coffee”, the governor of the jail it is replacing has said.

The boss of Scotland’s largest prison has said he wants the jail being built to replace it to be similar to a Costa coffee shop. Michael Stoney, governor of Barlinnie in Glasgow, said the new ...

A MAN is facing a life sentence after being convicted of murdering a Celtic fan and attempting to murder another male on a busy city street. Dylan Curran, 25, took 30-year-old Peter Mullen’s life ...

The Scottish Prison Service said: “The presence of illicit substances in the wider community is a constant challenge. In January we revealed drones are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs ...