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 ...

Stirling was the longest serving prison director in the nation, after having been appointed to his role by former Governor ...

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

A record number of people died in Scotland's prisons last year, according to major new research published today.

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 ...

Cambridgeshire Police confirmed that a man, 44, has been arrested in connection with the death of John Mansfield, who received his second life sentence for stabbing another prisoner in HMP Full Sutton ...

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 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. HMP Frankland is located in County Durham and is a Category A men’s prison that houses around 800 of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners.

Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi was “silent and grinning” when he is said to have thrown boiling oil over three prison officers at HMP Frankland before stabbing them, The Mirror reports.

raises some very serious questions about the way in which some of the country’s most dangerous prisoners are being housed at HMP Frankland in Durham. Abedi, who was jailed for life for helping ...