Prisoners are to be released even earlier from Scottish jails, just a year after the threshold was reduced. Criminals will ...

Lawyers for the Scottish government said moving trans woman prisoners to male-only jails would create an 'unacceptable risk ...

The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging the guidance which helps decide which prisons trans people are held in.

The government has argued having a "blanket rule" for where prisoners are housed could breach human rights law.

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 ...

Aidan O’Neill KC, who is representing FWS, suggested to the Court of Session on Tuesday morning that the Scottish government was doubling down as ‘a political calculation’ and that women locked up ...

A PRISON guard has been arrested and charged over her alleged relationship with an inmate at Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie ...

Three prison staff were unfairly dismissed after a “fundamentally flawed” investigation into claims they attacked an inmate, ...

The case comes in the wake of the outcry over trans rapist Isla Bryson – formerly known as Adam Graham – who was initially ...

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prisons "within days" if he becomes first minister after the ...

A NATS MSP wants to ease the pressure on Scotland’s overcrowded jails — by deporting foreign inmates to Kosovo. Kenny Gibson suggested non-Scots inmates could serve out their prison stretches in ...