A prisoner who escaped from an escort van on the way to court was found after three-day search. The 33 year old man escaped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Prisons fail to deal speedily with day-to-day basics such as requests by prisoners for toilet paper, according to a report by ...

A man who was granted early release from prison under the Government’s SDS40 scheme killed another man the day he walked out ...

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars ...

Average prisoner pay is £11.62 per week Lowest-paid ‘can afford one 20-minute phone call’ A survey of prisoners’ pay carried ...

April brings us professional snooker’s most prestigious tournament, the 2025 Cazoo World Championship, which brings together ...

An ex-prisoner has been awarded £7,500 in damages after a judge found that he was unlawfully selected at random to undergo ...

Prisons have paid out almost £50 million in the past five years to staff who suffered injuries at work. The Ministry of ...