SCOTLAND’s prisons watchdog has been slammed after suggesting jail bosses should provide a wardrobe of wigs and women’s underwear for transgender inmates. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland ...

Inspectors have called out the “wretchedly poor state” of Scotland’s largest prison after reviewing the responses of a ...

Howard League Scotland offers scathing verdict on of Barlinnie prison, three years before a new jail is due to replace it ...

Survey pinpoints threats and attacks by "bully" officers at Scotland's biggest jail. Inspectors claim overcrowding is causing ...

Atena had been serving a prison sentence of 12 years and nine months for her art, after being found guilty at an unfair trial in June last year of charges including ‘spreading propaganda against the ...

A 61-year-old man reported missing from Edinburgh has been traced. George Ritchie was last seen around 10.30pm in Margaret Rose Way in Fairmilehead on Saturday March 29. Police Scotland confirmed on ...

A sex offender who realised he had been caught out downloading images of children made an internet search: "What do HM Prison cells look like?" Shane Silby, 51, had been been downloading images of ...

A female prison officer has been jailed after engaging in an illicit sexual relationship with a career criminal while working at a high-security lock-up. Twenty-two-year-old Niamh Lloyd met Lee ...

The first Nook will be launched in Glasgow and is set to open in Autumn this year, with future locations in Aberdeen, Edinburgh ... with police watchdogs HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in ...

(Planet Labs PBC via AP) Israeli security personnel stand outside Ofer military prison in the West Bank on Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File) Palestinian surgeon Khaled Alserr, 32, who ...

An online pervert who was caught with sickening indecent images of children realised that he could be in big trouble and made an internet search: "What do HM Prison cells look like?" Shane Silby ...