Justice secretary Angela Constance has asked parliament to pass emergency legislation that would see short-term prisoners - ...

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 ...

Hundreds of inmates will be freed early under emergency plans to tackle dangerous overcrowding, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has confirmed.

NATS chiefs have been slammed for “rehashing” a “shameful” early release of more than 800 prisoners in a desperate bid to ease pressure on straining Scottish jails. SNP justice secretary Angela ...

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 heart problem, and had a sudden mental health crisis. He was not ...

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 ...

Staff have said the death of Allan, 30, in HMP Edinburgh, just days before he was due to be released, was ”barbaric”, even in an environment where raw force is often used to restore order.

At HMP Edinburgh flying delivery machines are regularly used to smuggle weapons, drugs and mobile phones into jails and now ...