Although three new prisons have opened in the past four years - adding approximately 5,000 more places - further expansion to existing prisons has been delayed by a major ...

Fresh court documents reveal details of the five murder charges against the Victoria Cross recipient. Source link

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

The emergency early release of nearly 1,000 prisoners from Scotland's jails will get under way on Tuesday. Dozens of inmates are to be freed at the start of a ...

Available for over a yearIf you’re interested in this episode, you may also like ‘Life inside our packed prisons’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027t4p Justice secretary Angela Constance (pictured) is proposing the emergency ...

BBCThe gates at the entrance to the Lilias Centre are patterened with leavesThe first thing I noticed as I approached the Lilias Centre was the pretty gate at the ...

James Cook & Paul WardBBC Scotland NewsPA MediaThe first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails.Emergency legislation ...

More than 1,700 prisoners have been released early in England and Wales as part of a government scheme to ease overcrowding in prisons.One freed prisoner said conditions in prison ...

Today the business has around 50 workers across three Peruvian jails, two male and one female, and makes around 1,000 garments a week. A not-for-profit enterprise, the prisoners earn ...

Getty ImagesWhen a notorious Russian assassin and an American newspaper correspondent boarded separate planes in Turkey on Thursday, it marked the culmination of a secretive, dramatic prisoner swap deal ...