Hundreds more prisoners are to be set free early under plans that the SNP has been warned pose a risk to public safety. Under ...
The government's prisons minister Lord Timpson says the backlog of offenders who need electronic tags “has now been reduced ...
Almost 40 prisoners collapsed in just 24 hours and one was rushed to hospital after a batch of drugs were snuck in through ...
Prisoners deemed "an immediate risk" to a specific person or members of the public by governors earlier this year may be released under proposals to be fast tracked through Holyrood this week. A ...
Prison dairy farms may hold the key to reducing recidivism by teaching inmates empathy, care, and self-regulation through ...
In Bloomington, a small community of death row spiritual advisors is struggling to support the prisoners to whom they ...
What connects a loopy geologist, the Welsh Government and the hounding of Allison Pearson? Well, the lines between these dots ...
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Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport ...
In the summer of 1944 Kathleen Oates - a Wren assigned to the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War - was ...
Hamas' acting Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said in remarks broadcast on Wednesday that there would be no hostages-for-prisoners ...
The remaining members of the “Bali Nine” drug ring could be released from Indonesia and returned to Australia if “ongoing” ...