The Scottish government is to argue in court that a "blanket rule" about placing transgender prisoners in jails according to ...

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

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

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

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.

NATS ministers sparked fury for appearing to suggest that sending male-bodied trans convicts to women’s prisons is like mums ...

Labour MSP Katy Clark says Scottish budget was "a missed opportunity to invest in Scotland's police, prisons and fire and rescue service".

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

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