A 67-year-old man caught delivering £144,000 of drugs agreed with the judge jailing him that he was "a bit old" for such ...

FEARED hitman Barry ‘Baghdad’ Harvey has been shipped out of a notorious nick as part of a plan to disrupt caged hoods linked ...

The new HMP Grampian, which opened in March 2014, is a state-of-the-art prison which is designed to be "community-facing", taking inmates from the north east of Scotland and focusing more on ...

HMP Grampian running club is the brainchild of Paolo Maccagno. Although Italian, Paolo has lived in Banchory for 10 years. In his late 30s Paolo, who had been an architect for 20 years, ...

Finding the necessary staffing levels to fully utilise accommodation at HMP Grampian would help ease overcrowding elsewhere in Scotland’s jails, according to prisons inspectors. The jail at ...

Russell Maitland, who worked at HMP Grampian, admitted carrying out the offences in Peterhead and Aberdeen. BBC. Prison ...

Inmates at HMP Grampian have spent more than £100,000 on vaping since smoking was banned at the prison. In late 2018, the Scottish Government got rid of cigarettes at the nation’s jails in an ...

Prison officers working at HMP Grampian have been assaulted by inmates almost 100 times in the last five years, new figures show. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can ...

A prison officer has been fired for abusing his position to woo inmates’ partners after they came to visit their men in jail. Warden Cameron MacKie collected the personal contact details of ...

HMP Grampian, which opened in March, lies on the southern side of the fishing port of Peterhead. This is high on the north-east Scottish coast, more than 50km north of Aberdeen. It is a public ...

In the mid-1980s prison officers at HMP Peterhead had to wear body armour at all times after a series of riots and hostage-takings.

Alongside the old jail, the new HMP & YOI Grampian jail is being built and architects and builders show how Scotland's newest superjail is designed and constructed for the 21st century, with a ...