Two Scottish groups calling for fairness in the justice system have launched separate campaigning initiatives. NOLR, a group ...

A prison worker and her mother have been jailed over their involvement in a plot to put an inmate who was a drug smuggler “in ...

A nurse at HMP Preston has been jailed for 20 months after she was convicted for her role in a ‘sophisticated criminal gang’ ...

A trans woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the female section of HMP Edinburgh was convicted of assaulting a woman officer by forcibly pushing her up against the door. The incident happened ...

A former prison governor was given a £12,000 Mercedes as a present by an ex-prisoner in her jail, a court heard last week. According to the prosecutor in her trial in Preston Crown Court, the man ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has been criticised for allowing a trans woman prison officer to carry out body searches of female visitors. Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of Scotland’s ...

The 53-year-old head of security at Les Nicolles prison in Guernsey has been convicted of indecent behaviour towards a ...

Jordan Burns made several attempts to take his own life during 10 months as an unconvicted remand prisoner at Scotland’s HMP ...

A unique exhibition is shining a spotlight on miscarriages of justice – with a display of hand-sculpted busts of men and ...

An investigation into the death of a prisoner at HMP The Mount has raised serious concerns about the ongoing supply of drugs, ...

Eight prisoners at HMP Addiewell were rushed to hospital in the space of 24 hours after apparently taking ‘pink cocaine’. The ...

Restricted regimes and self-harm at Eastwood Park women’s prison are a matter of “concern”, the jail’s Independent Monitoring ...