Hundreds of prisoners were subsequently released.

Overcrowding is putting Scottish prisons under “intense and unsustainable pressure”, inspectors have warned in their annual report. At one jail, prisoners even had to sleep on mattresses on the ...

The party’s plan is to reintroduce North Sea oil and gas as Scotland’s primary energy source.

Scotland's prisons are bursting at the seams with repeated early release schemes failing to get a grip on the problem.

LONDON — Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded prisons across the United Kingdom. “We have been managing an ...

William Brown, 16, and Katie Allan, 21, took their own lives in Polmont Young Offenders Institution Deaths in Scotland's prisons have increased by 60% in the past year, a report has revealed. The ...

As Scotland grapples with overcrowded prisons by introducing another wave of emergency early releases, the country’s authorities have increased sentence lengths for one particular group of ...

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THE UK has the highest prison population in the EU with almost 100,000 people locked up, according to a new report today. A snapshot of figures from 2016 showed 94,291 individuals were in jail or ...