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

Contractor GEOAmey, who transport prisoners around Scotland, will be replaced next year following a series of failings – ...

For Women Scotland has lodged legal action against Ministers over the Government's management of transgender people in ...

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

The Scottish government is being challenged in court by the campaign group For Women Scotland.

Ministers have published legal arguments on the issue ahead of a hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh next month.

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 ...

Ex-prison governor Rhona Hotchkiss has warned “women’s rights are being breached” and accused John Swinney of leaving ...

A former female prisoner’s confidential testimony has sparked a fierce courtroom row after ministers sent it to police without court approval.

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 ...

The Scottish Prison Service have announced that facilities management company Mitie have replaced GeoAmey as the firm ...

A blanket ban on placing biological males who identify as transgender in female prisons would violate their human rights, the ...