Experts examining the Scottish Prison Service’s “Talk To Me” strategy catalogued a series of systemic failings in their ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons has hit a record high, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said. There were 8,430 people behind bars on Tuesday, above the previous high of 8,420, with the ...

C2 Software has launched The Scottish Prison Service’s (SPS) new website. Aimed at improving the flow of information from the SPS and raising awareness of its work, the site will be used by a broad ...

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 ...

Chronic overcrowding is “paralysing” the Scottish prison system and undermining efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and keep them safe, a report has warned. The report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons said ...

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Kath Murray is a founding member of MurrayBlackburnMackenzie (MBM). MBM is a not-for-profit independent policy analysis collective, established in 2018. Most of this work is on an unpaid basis, with ...

Scotland's prisons are “dangerously out of control” due to overcrowding, budget cuts and gangland feuds behind bars, it has ...

Failing to discipline prison officers after an inmate took his own life “condoned” bad practice at a young offenders’ institution, the Scottish Prison Service has been warned by a sheriff. Jack ...

Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of Cornton Vale women's prison, said there should be ‘no males in female jails’ Prison bosses should remove trans women from female jails in the wake of a landmark ...