Overcrowding in Scotland's jails and pressure on the PM ahead of Labour party conference leads today's front pages.

Scotland’s prison population is now higher than it was before hundreds of prisoners were released early in a bid to ease ...

The victims of serious crime have been forgotten, a charity has warned, after John Swinney admitted the release of almost 500 prisoners failed.

A ONE-legged paedophile who fled the Caribbean will serve the rest of his jail term in Scotland. Evil Colin Kristensen, 65, ...

Figures released by the Scottish Prison Service show how many prisoners have been released and into which council area.

Cops examined a number of mobile phones recovered from drug couriers and found numbers linked to Christopher Smith.

Scotland has shown that early releases do not necessarily solve capacity problems – with the country’s prisoner population ...

FOUR in 10 prisoners released early this summer in a bid to cut overcrowding were serving sentences for violent crimes, it ...

All under-18s have now been removed from Scotland’s young offender institutions (YOIs) and transferred to more child friendly ...

The Scottish First Minister said there would be ‘outrage’ if he tried to interfere with the running of the force ...

A prisoner who escaped from the Scotland County Detention Center early Monday is back in custody, authorities said. Phillip ...

A total of 477 prisoners were let out early across June and July under an emergency scheme introduced by the Scottish ...