FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 6 - The Untold Story

Family of young Scots woman who died behind bars slam prison service as deaths soar

Linda and Stuart Allan have hit out after a new report from Glasgow University found there have been 121 deaths in prison in Scotland since the start of 2022.

Daily Record · Nov 30, 2022

Nazi sympathisers using Scots Prison Service to fund lifestyle of French Holocaust denier

Vincent Reynouard, 53, was arrested in Anstruther, Fife, in a joint operation involving Scottish and French authorities.

Daily Record · Nov 25, 2022

Dumfries Prison to open its doors for staff recruitment days

The Scottish Prison Service is looking to boost its workforce at several jails across the country

Daily Record · Oct 7, 2022

Barlinnie jail boss says keeping drugs out of prisons is 'impossible' due to massive demand from inmates

Sean McFedries made the comments during a Fatal Accident Inquiry following the death of James McCulloch, who was found unresponsive in his cell in March 2020.

Daily Record · Jun 22, 2022

Edinburgh man dies in prison while serving a sentence for gun crime

Liam McCaig was found in possession of an illegal firearm as well as £33,000 worth of cocaine. He was sentenced at Edinburgh High Court to five years imprisonment in 2019.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 15, 2022

EU outlines series of steps in response to controversial NI Protocol Bill

As well as fresh legal action the bloc has fleshed out proposals it says would smooth implementation of post-Brexit trading arrangements.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Scottish Prison Service ‘can weed out potential gender reform abusers’

A SENIOR prisons official has said the service will be able to weed out people seeking to abuse reforms to gender recognition laws.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 7, 2022

Dundee woman almost beaten to death with dumbbell in woods by killer launches campaign for justice

Maniac Robbie McIntosh was on jail leave when he attacked defenceless dog walker Linda McDonald with a dumbbell

Daily Record · May 27, 2022

Shock as 25 inmates at Scots prisons die by suicide as victim's family lawyer demands bosses face criminal sanctions

The Sunday Mail can reveal a massive project was looked at in 2019 to ­implement ­suicide ­prevention measures in all cells in our publicly run jails at a cost of £155million.

Daily Record · Apr 10, 2022

Killer now identifies as an infant who wears nappies and demands baby food in prison

Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004

Daily Mirror · Apr 9, 2022