Under the law, the Crown, which includes the Scottish Prison Service, cannot be held criminally responsible for deaths in ...

Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, took their own lives in separate incidents at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in ...

The families of two young people who died in Polmont Young Offenders Institution are set to meet with senior prison service officials. Katie Allan, 21, and William Lindsay, 16, died within months of ...

The Scottish Prison Service has also apologised to the families of Katie Allan and William Lindsay, who both took their lives at the young offenders institute.

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident (FAI) inquiry into the death of 48-year-old Gary Wallace, who died on 17 April 2021 at HMP Inverness.   A ...

The Scottish Prison Service are removing bunk beds from prison cells as part of of a raft of change following the deaths of two young people in custody. Katie Allan and William Lindsay took their own ...

There are 16 prisons in Scotland. Prisons such as HMP Perth hold a mix of long and short-term adult male offenders. Young offenders institutions HMYOI Polmont can hold up to 758 offenders aged 18-21.

with a prototype available this month and will be introduced at HMP & YOI Polmont in the summer. It will then be rolled out to establishments across the country "to not only make sure that rooms ...