Prison governors fear the return of rioting as an unprecedented number of prisons are placed on the highest security alert level.

Governors want return of an early release for long term prisoners, axed in 2016, to be brought back by John Swinney and Angela Constance amid ...

I want a robust system that keeps me and my family safe, and I don’t want the same thing to happen to anyone else.” That is what we ...

A record number of prisons are overcrowded despite emergency release schemes freeing hundreds of prisoners early.