The Scottish Prison Service has admitted that the death of a man in custody was unlawful - 10 years on from the fatality. Allan Marshall, 30, was on remand at HMP Edinburgh in March 2015 when he was ...

In 2015, Allan Marshall was on remand at HMP Edinburgh for non-payment of fines and a breach of the peace offence. He had a ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said Crown immunity for the prison service should be abolished, according to the lawyer representing the families of two young people who died in ...

A prisoner-led collaboration between the Prison Reform Trust’s Building Futures team and inmates in Scotland’s HMP Glenochil has found that progression through the Scottish prison system for ...

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

A GUARD is suing jail bosses after a crazed lag threw a container of scalding-hot soup over her — in a bust-up about a ...

A similar early release scheme in 2024 saw the release of 477 short-term inmates who had served at least 50% of their sentence. The prison population had been 8,232 before this initiative started in ...

The Scottish Government will contest For Women Scotland’s legal bid to strike down schools and prisons guidance on transgender rights.

Procurator fiscal Andy Shanks, who leads on deaths investigations for COPFS, said: “The Lord Advocate considers that the ...