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

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has accepted the 25 recommendations made following a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the ...

A joint FAI identified a “catalogue of individual and collective failures by prison and healthcare staff” which led to Katie and William's deaths at HMP Polmont. Particularly, the probe ...

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

The head of the Scottish Prison Service has apologised to the families of two young people who took their own lives – just months apart – inside the country’s largest young offenders institution.

The Scottish Prison Service are removing bunk beds from prison cells as part of of a raft of change following the deaths of ...

SNP ministers have been told to urgently end a pause on prioritising housing for care leavers amid rising homelessness concerns.

Fiscal depute Emily Hood told Sheriff Macdonald that a row sparked by birthday presents led to the siege, which Grant said ...

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 families of two young inmates who died at Polmont have called for the prison service to be stripped of crown immunity following an inquiry. The grieving relatives of Katie Allan, 21, and ...

A joint FAI identified a “catalogue of individual and collective failures by prison and healthcare staff” which led to Katie and William's deaths at HMP Polmont. Particularly, the probe identified a ...