Scottish jails resemble “a mini UN conference”, an academic has claimed, amid calls to deport foreign criminals to ease overcrowding. Jim Watson, a criminal justice lecturer at the University of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The measure is intended to ease overcrowding in Scottish prisons - Danny Lawson/PA Prisoners are to be released even earlier from ...

A major new research study has found the number of people dying in prison surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60% increase on the previous year, making Scotland's mortality rate among the ...

LONDON — Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded prisons across the United Kingdom. “We have been managing an ...

The Scottish government is using women in prison as "pawns for political gain", a court has been told. The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging the government's guidance for where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is no automatic breach of female inmates’ human rights by the presence of trans women on the female prison estate, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scottish government is fighting a case over the housing of trans female inmates in women's prisons [PA Media] Requiring ...

Hundreds of prisoners are expected to be released early under proposals to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails. Justice Secretary Angela Constance said the move would help lower Scotland's prison ...

A legal challenge against the Scottish Government’s policy on transgender prisoners will commence on Tuesday. The judicial review hearing begins at the Court of Session in Edinburgh and will hear from ...