The Scottish government is being challenged in court by the campaign group For Women Scotland.

Ministers have published legal arguments on the issue ahead of a hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh next month.

Some Scottish prisons have been described as “dangerously out of control” in a report produced by the Criminal 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 ...

THE “systemic failure of health provision” is at the root of the drugs crisis facing Scotland’s prisons, according to ...

An SNP MSP has accused the Scottish Government of “appalling” actions over the Supreme Court’s single-sex spaces ruling.

The SNP has launched a secret legal bid to keep biological men in women’s prisons by forcing a change to the Equality Act.

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has confirmed that there have 27 been “liberations in error”, where people have been ...

Ex-prison governor says there are ‘no women’s prisons in Scotland’ - Rhona Hotchkiss criticised the Scottish Prison Services’ ...

The police, fire service and prison service had all asked for extra funding to strengthen their numbers and resources.

JK ROWLING is backing a killer hairdresser’s bid to sue prison chiefs after being cleared of an alleged hate crime against a ...

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 ...