The Latest Breaking News from Scottish Prison Service

Cornton Vale women’s prison and young offenders institution is to close early in the new year. The Scottish Prison Service announced this week that the doors will close in early 2023 before HMP & YOI Stirling, which is being built on the same si

A damning report into prison deaths in Scotland has found that a record number of people died in custody over the two years with the case of a Glasgow woman highlighted as an example.

Vile McCafferty, 76, died at HMP Glenochil on Saturday, November 19.

Vincent Reynouard, 53, was arrested in Anstruther, Fife, in a joint operation involving Scottish and French authorities.

Complaints have been made over the prisoner making threats after being enraged over the choice of sandwiches at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

The families of young Scots who died by suicide in jail have argued that the Scottish Prison Service has not been held accountable over their deaths.

The Scottish Prison Service has confirmed the death of 40-year-old Scott Graham at HMP Low Moss in Bishopbriggs where he was on remand for an attempted break-in.

William Tucker, 77, was was imprisoned in 2019 for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl over a four year period at addresses in Glasgow, Fife and Argyll between April 2008 and April 2012

Sick William Tucker has died in prison three years after being found guilty of raping the girl.