The population remains stubbornly high despite the fact that hundreds of prisoners have been freed early since November.

A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial review next month. Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of now-closed HMP ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The force reported that 32 offenders accumulated total sentences of more than 228 years in 2025, with one person given 17 years in ...

Prisoners at privately run HMP Addiewell post videos from their cells, showing men apparently out of their nut on Spice and ...

WEAPONS seized in Scots prisons hit more than 1,300 over two years amid dangerous overcrowding. A huge surge in confiscations ...

Scotland recorded its highest yearly number of deaths in prison custody, according to statistics published by the Scottish ...

A second prisoner has died in a Scottish prison - days after a 19-year-old died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution. The ...

Scotland's prison population has reached a record high. The number of people in custody has been rising for many months and on Tuesday hit 8,430. That number surpasses the previous record of 8,420 set ...