A new report on the experiences of the country’s Fatal Accident Inquiry system sheds light on why relatives of those who died in custody ...

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has described the investigation of deaths in custody as “traumatising” for families, and ...

A new report by Professor Jim Gallagher warns that devolved government in Scotland is “in stasis” and faces a looming fiscal ...

The wife of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández says he has been released from prison following a pardon from ...

A new BBC 2 docuseries, The Man in the Mask: An Orkney Murder, takes viewers back to 2 June 1994, when 26-year-old ...

The decision by the Court of Cassation makes definitive former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction to a year in ...

A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Scotland Neck man, Achontay Malik Cotten, 22, to 11 years in federal prison for multiple armed robberies. “Armed robbers terrorize employees and patrons alike, ...

The issue of noise coming from HMP Stirling has been a regular bug-bear for those living on the edge of the prison complex - ...

New research has highlighted the severe emotional and practical impacts of increasingly long prison sentences on those who ...

Nearly one in ten criminals jailed in Scotland last year were not ‘British nationals’ as the average prison population soared to a record high. New figures show the proportion of foreign inmates has ...