A man already serving a 15-year sentence threw boiling water into an officer’s face and then hit him with the kettle, leaving him with burns to his face and eye.
Families of people serving Orders for Lifelong Restriction told Scotland’s human rights watchdog and a Holyrood committee that the indefinite sentence is not working as intended.
A coroner has issued a prevention of future deaths report after CCTV showed prisoners silencing a cell’s emergency bell in the hour before Thomas Ruggiero was found unresponsive.
Two prison inspectors say people with severe mental illness are still trapped in jails, and the Chief Inspector of Prisons says the situation has deteriorated since 2024.
Charlie Taylor says organised crime group members who run drug supply inside jails should be separated from other prisoners, as people who radicalise others already are.
The Scottish Prison Service believes it is the first prison system in the world to adopt a pain-free method of restraint in all of its prisons.
Police described the 28-year-old as the head of a sophisticated operation that flew drugs and phones into jails. Selfies he took with his drones turned up on his phone.
The charity has published the names of more than 60 prisons awaiting fire safety improvements, after the Prison Service told fire safety inspectors it would miss a 2027 deadline for in-cell fire detection.
A report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons found that almost one in five men in prison could not use the gym or play sport, with women and men in local prisons faring worse.
A former prison officer has received four-and-a-half years after hiding contraband in protein powder tubs, in a scheme police said supplied a prisoner with goods worth up to £190,000.
