The latest tranche of releases has seen the total population in Scotland's overcrowded jails reduce by just 68 so far.

Campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has launched legal action seeking to overturn prison guidance on transwomen. However, ...

Prison officers have warned that overcrowding and understaffing have pushed Scotland's jails to "crisis point." The prison population hit an all-time high of 8,430 last week, beating the previous ...

An SNP MSP has accused the Scottish Government of “appalling” actions over the Supreme Court’s single-sex spaces ruling. Senior judges found against the SNP administration’s stance on women-only ...

The Scottish Government will defend its transgender prisoners' policy in court over three days in a long-running For Women Scotland row.

Rhona Hotchkiss criticised the Scottish Prison Services’ (SPS) transgender policy ahead of a judicial review in February.

The Scottish Government is set to argue that banning transgender prisoners from women's jails would breach human rights.

It was revealed earlier this month that GEOAmey delivered inmates to court late 10,474 times in 10 months last year, and were ...

Blanket ruling on trans prisoners would ‘violate rights’ – Scottish Government - Ministers have published legal arguments on ...

William McDonald, 76, pushed his wife into the sea from a pier, bit her on the nose and smashed her over the head with a ...