Ten of Scotland's prisons are at 'red risk status' and ten are 'on or over their assessed capacity tolerance'.

Scottish Justice Secretary Angela Constance has called on the country’s Parliament to pass emergency laws that could lead to ...

Teresa Medhurst, chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, said the benefits of an early release scheme have now been ...

HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow has been stretched to breaking point in recent years as the whole Scottish prison estate struggles with overcrowding. So reported Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Deputy ...

Hundreds of prisoners are set to be released early in the latest bid to tackle prison overcrowding. Angela Constance, Justice ...

The number of people in Scotland's prisons has risen back above the level which sparked the early release of hundreds of inmates to free up space. More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving ...

At HMP Edinburgh flying delivery machines are regularly used to smuggle weapons, drugs and mobile phones into jails and now ...

Overcrowding is the biggest issue in Scotland’s prisons, the prison officers’ union has said. The comments come following reports that the prison population now exceeds the number locked up before the ...

Scotland's jails are at “breaking point” as prison officers today demand urgent action on “dangerous” levels of overcrowding. A damning new report from the prison warder’s union has laid bare staff ...

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