Prisoners in some of Scotland’s jails are having more money spent on their meals than NHS patients in hospitals, official figures have revealed. The Scottish Tories obtained figures showing only ...
Costings released to the Scottish Conservatives show prisoners at the Lilias Centre in Glasgow are served meals valued at £5.30 while those given to patients of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are worth ...
Danny Lawson/Press Association. This means 12 per cent of all assaults at HMP Barlinnie, the biggest prison in Scotland, were against prison staff. Assaults peaked in 2019/20 and doubled between ...
SCOTLAND’S prison service faces a “ticking time bomb” with a record number of staff going off sick. In the first 10 months of last year, more than 65,000 working days were lost due to ...