It was ten years before then that Saughton saw its last hanging. Since opening in 1920, only four men were ever sent to the ...

The half-brother of Hollywood actor James McAvoy slashed a fellow inmate in a potentially life-threatening attack during ...

'I was thinking it was a safe area to live but I'm not so sure about that now' ...

The A-list star's half-brother, Donald McAvoy, pleaded guilty to assault with a blade at HMP Saughton in Edinburgh during ...

A paedophile who targeted two schoolboys after meeting them while playing games on an Xbox has been jailed and banned from ...

A tribunal has ruled the three officers were unfairly dismissed from their jobs at HMP Edinburgh.

Blair McTague, Scott Milne and Kevin O'Hara were unfairly dismissed after they were alleged to have attacked an inmate at HMP Edinburgh.

Compensation has been ordered for the three men who were physical training instructors at the Saughton prison.

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

A LEADING Edinburgh-based optometry director has been named ‘Alumni of the Year’ by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), in a ...

The former head of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency says a new policing organisation separate from Police Scotland should be formed to combat the country's increasingly sophisticated and ...

Theresa Medhurst says prison staff have felt ‘relentless’ pressure for the past two years.