FOI/202600512777 · FOI · released

Scottish prison nationality statistics: FOI release

Published: 2026-05-18
Received: 2026-03-24
Responded: 2026-04-17
Directorate: Safer Communities Directorate
Topic: Law and order, Public sector
Exemptions: None detected

Information requested

You asked for the nationality data about individuals spending time in prison in Scotland disaggregated to country level.

Response

I enclose the information you requested. Following the standards adopted by the Scottish Prison Service for potentially disclosive information about prisoners, cells in the attached table containing fewer than 5 cases are labelled "< 5".

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Attachments

FOI 202600512777 - Information Released - Spreadsheet Excel document 15.0 kB

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