Scottish jails resemble “a mini UN conference”, an academic has claimed, amid calls to deport foreign criminals to ease overcrowding. Jim Watson, a criminal justice lecturer at the University ...

A MAP reveals Scotland’s lag hotspots — the postcodes with the most prisoners.Figures show 207 cons are from Glasgow city centre (G2), which tops ...

The Victorian prison, which has served the Scottish city for more than 130 years, houses some 1250 inmates, ... Barlinnie Prison map: Barlinnie is in the northeast of Glasgow. ITV.

When an Irish judge blocked a man's extradition to Scotland on humanitarian grounds, it raised questions about the state of Scotland's prisons. Mr Justice Paul McDermott said Richard Sharples ...

Sara Snell has been appointed as the new HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland having served 25 years in England and Wales.. She replaces Wendy Sinclair-Gieben in the job after she stepped ...

In the 2024/25 budget, there was a 10 per cent increase in the Scottish Prison Service’s resources budget and £148 million was allocated for community justice.

More than a quarter of the 7,775 people in Scotland's prisons are awaiting trial, deportation or sentencing, according to the latest official statistics, external.