The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is facing “significant pressures” over its budgets, staffing levels and handling of rising prison populations, MSPs have been told. Scotland’s chief inspector for prisons, Wendy
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Rules on temporary release from prison are being eased in a drive to improve offenders’ job prospects. Ministers say the move will allow inmates more opportunities to work and train
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A review of mental health provision at a young offenders institution where two people took their own lives has found the “risks and vulnerabilities” of some inmates are not given
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More than 500 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested in a week. Between May 13 and 20 police forces across the UK carried out a crackdown
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An order has been published to extend the presumption against short prison sentences from three months to a year, in an attempt to break the cycle of reoffending. The Scottish
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Supervision of all offenders in England and Wales is being brought back in-house after a part-privatisation was dogged by controversy and criticism. The public National Probation Service (NPS) will take
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The prison service has been accused of “systemic failure” after an inspection found a jail’s performance had worsened despite being placed in “special measures”. Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke
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A mentally ill man lost three fingertips when five police officers wrenched him from a cell toilet he had grabbed hold of and then got his fingers caught under the
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A scandal-hit NHS trust failed to properly care for a suicidal teenager despite him being considered “high risk” and “grossly psychotic”, a court heard. Jamie Osborne killed himself on the
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Women in parts of the north of England are four times more likely to end up in jail than female offenders in the Home Counties, research suggests. A report by
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