The number of people dying in prison in Scotland surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60 per cent increase on the ...

Women are being sent to prison after missing court appearances because they cannot get child care, The Herald has found as we investigate the ...

Paula Arnold, governor of HMP and YOI Stirling, which opened in 2023 at a cost of £85 million, cited a case of a woman prisoner who had been released from her jail only to find herself back in ...

Paris Green admitted culpable and reckless conduct towards a woman - now campaigners say Scottish Prison Service is breaking its own rules and must throw the murderer into a male jail ...

Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in the period up to December 2024, at a rate of 122 per 1,000 prisoners.

Police are hunting for a convicted murderer who has gone missing from an open prison in Scotland. Raymond McCourt, 59, was reported missing from HMP Castle Huntly at 5.30pm on Tuesday. Police have ...

Roddie, whose address was listed as HMP Kilmarnock and O'Neil, of HMP and YOI Stirling, both pleaded not guilty to the charge during a hearing at Ayr Sheriff Court assisted by videolink. Defence ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed former SCDC director Bryan P. Stirling as the United States Attorney for the ...