A study published by the Scottish Government has found that women detained at two new Community Custody Units (CCUs) are not ...

A prison officer has admitted causing the death of a dog walker after striking him with his car. Robert Jardine, 40, was returning from a night shift at HMP Addiewell when he hit William Henderson in ...

A prison officer sacked for gross misconduct over the death of an inmate has failed in a bid to sue jail chiefs. Kenneth Aitken, 65, argued he had been unfairly dismissed by the Scottish Prison ...

The mistaken release of a sex offender who was set to be deported exposes the staffing pressures at the heart of Britain’s prisons crisis. A senior prison employee told the BBC that Hadush Kebatu’s ...