A watchdog has published a report (pictured) exposing what it describes as serious failings in the way complaints are handled ...

A PRISON officer who was spotted at a protest outside a migrant hotel has been suspended from his job amid a conduct probe.

Police are investigating after a car was deliberately set on fire outside the prison in Peterhead. The incident - involving a ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said that an influx of prisoners involved with gangs is “changing the temperature” in the country’s jails, with more men held in segregation than ...

Under current laws, the Crown, which includes the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), cannot be held criminally responsible for deaths in custody.

Emergency services were called around 1.15am on Tuesday to a Citroen C3 Cactus on fire in the car park of HMP & YOI Grampian.

For Women Scotland has accused the government of failing to update its guidance for prisoners and transgender pupils in ...

Kenneth Aitken, 65, argued he had been unfairly dismissed by the Scottish Prison Service for failing to make sure Iain Brown was properly monitored after a nurse suspected him of being 'intoxicated'.

Scottish ministers are facing further legal action from the campaign group that won April’s UK Supreme Court ruling on the ...

COPS are hunting thugs who torched a prison officer’s motor outside a Scots jail in the early hours of this morning. Mercy ...

Statistics uncovered by a Freedom of Information request from our sister title The Greenock Telegraph to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) show that between 2020 and 2024, officers at HMP Greenock ...