A prison officer has been jailed for 15 months after she admitted to having sex with an inmate in a cell while on duty.

SCOTLAND’S prison service faces a “ticking time bomb” with a record number of staff going off sick. In the first 10 months of ...

Prison officers at a special delegate conference ... prison numbers had an impact on the prison regime Tom Fox, of the Scottish Prison Service, said: "Numbers have risen fairly steeply over ...

A prison officer has been jailed for 15 months after having sex with an inmate in a cell. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of Fulham, south-west London, was charged after a video of the activity was shared ...

In the first 10 months of last year, more than 65,000 working days were lost due to illness across the country. This includes ...

Injuries to police include stab wounds, bites, concussions and burns as well as being spat at and slashed. New figures ...

The Scottish Conservatives said the figures showed ministers have ‘let violence against prison staff spiral out of control’.

The Scottish Prison Service confirmed an incident took place within the car park of HMP Edinburgh on 7 September A prison officer's car has been firebombed outside HMP Edinburgh, the latest in a ...

Scottish Prison Officer staff brought the incident to an end at 5.30am after 12 hours. The injured wardens spent the night in hospital and were understood to be "comfortable". Tony Cameron ...

The number of sick days staff at Barlinnie took has been revealed as Scotland’s prison service faces a ‘ticking time bomb’ Employees at the Glasgow prison took 9125 days off in the first 10 months of ...

Shocking numbers of prisoners are dying “needlessly” in Scotland’s crisis-hit jails, it has been claimed, after more than 50 ...