The Latest Breaking News from SPS

Cornton Vale women's prison on final countdown ahead of 2023 closure

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

Daily Record · Dec 15, 2022

Family of young Scots woman who died behind bars slam prison service as deaths soar

Linda and Stuart Allan have hit out after a new report from Glasgow University found there have been 121 deaths in prison in Scotland since the start of 2022.

Daily Record · Nov 30, 2022

Nazi sympathisers using Scots Prison Service to fund lifestyle of French Holocaust denier

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

Daily Record · Nov 25, 2022

Barlinnie to be replaced by HMP Glasgow in 2026 as contract awarded for new prison

Plans for the new jail to be built on a 54-acre site in Provanmill to the south of Royston Road, near Provan Gas Works, were approved by the council in September of 2020.

Glasgow Live · Jul 19, 2022

Barlinnie jail boss says keeping drugs out of prisons is 'impossible' due to massive demand from inmates

Sean McFedries made the comments during a Fatal Accident Inquiry following the death of James McCulloch, who was found unresponsive in his cell in March 2020.

Daily Record · Jun 22, 2022

Edinburgh man dies in prison while serving a sentence for gun crime

Liam McCaig was found in possession of an illegal firearm as well as £33,000 worth of cocaine. He was sentenced at Edinburgh High Court to five years imprisonment in 2019.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 15, 2022

EU outlines series of steps in response to controversial NI Protocol Bill

As well as fresh legal action the bloc has fleshed out proposals it says would smooth implementation of post-Brexit trading arrangements.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Scottish Prison Service ‘can weed out potential gender reform abusers’

A SENIOR prisons official has said the service will be able to weed out people seeking to abuse reforms to gender recognition laws.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 7, 2022

Dundee woman almost beaten to death with dumbbell in woods by killer launches campaign for justice

Maniac Robbie McIntosh was on jail leave when he attacked defenceless dog walker Linda McDonald with a dumbbell

Daily Record · May 27, 2022

Shock as 25 inmates at Scots prisons die by suicide as victim's family lawyer demands bosses face criminal sanctions

The Sunday Mail can reveal a massive project was looked at in 2019 to ­implement ­suicide ­prevention measures in all cells in our publicly run jails at a cost of £155million.

Daily Record · Apr 10, 2022