The SPS said all bunk beds had been removed from the rooms of young people in HMP & YOI Polmont, as well as rectangular doorstops, to improve safety. It has also introduced "concern lines" into ...

Teresa Medhurst has backed the removal of crown immunity over deaths in custody.

The SPS said all bunk beds had been removed from the rooms of young people at HMP & YOI Polmont, as well as rectangular doorstops, to improve safety. It has also introduced "concern lines" into ...

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 ...

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.

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 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.

William Brown and Katie Allan took their own lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution ... being restrained by up to 17 prison officers at HMP Edinburgh in 2010. In Scotland, Crown immunity ...

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 ...