An HMP Northumberland baking project is working to stop the cycling of reoffending through teaching valuable skills and boosting the self esteem of prisoners.

The projected cost of a new prison replacing Scotland's notorious HMP Barlinnie has more than doubled to almost £1bn. The opening of HMP Glasgow has also been delayed again to 2028, three years ...

A NEW prison to replace Glasgow’s 143-year-old HMP Barlinnie has been approved – and will cost around £1 billion. Initial estimates for the new prison – HMP Glasgow – had been around £170 million.

The Scottish Government has signed a £684m contract with Kier to build a new super-prison to replace Scotland’s most notorious jail, HMP Barlinnie. Kier started remediation and enabling works ...

The SNP has been accused of wasting huge amounts of taxpayers' money today after it was revealed a single new prison will cost almost a billion pounds. HMP Glasgow will cost almost 10-times the ...

HMP Hull inmate John Chambers was recalled to prison in January 2021 having previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual offences. He died three years later on June 17, 2024.