A former prison officer at HMP Swaleside who suffered racist abuse from colleagues has won an employment tribunal.

A major new research study has found the number of people dying in prison surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60% ...

The number of people dying in prison in Scotland surged to a record number of 64 in 2024, a 60 per cent increase on the ...

PRISON officers are still facing disciplinary action if they call male transgender inmates “he” or “him”, MSPs were told. Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay made the ...

Researchers said the mortality rate had more than doubled over the past decade and was now among the highest in Europe. The ...

Yet the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), which holds ... s prison estate despite being charged with assaulting a female prison officer. Dr Kath Murray, Dr Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie ...

Scottish prisons had the highest mortality rate in Europe last year as prison death rose by 60 per cent to reach a record 64, ...

Calum Inglis was months away from being released when he tested positive for Covid while serving a short sentence in ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS ... women’s prison estate despite being charged with assaulting a female prison officer. Last month the killer admitted to assaulting the officer at HMP ...

Scotland’s top law officer has instructed the criminal prosecution of a private prison over allegations of failing to manage ...

A record number of people died in Scotland's prisons last year, according to major new research published today.