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HM INSPECTORATE OF PRISONS REPORT ON HM PRISON KILMARNOCK 2000
ANNEX 1 - BEST PRACTICE
Practices at HMP Kilmarnock that are commended to other establishments
- The prison had its own trained drug dog handler and two dogs – one active and one
passive (paragraph 4.17).
- Ex-drug using prisoners were involved in delivering drugs courses to remand prisoners (paragraph 4.31).
- As an alternative to telephone cards, a PIN number system was in operation and each
prisoner had a telephone account, with no limit on the amount of cash that could be in any
account (paragraph 5.9).
- The regime operated on the basis that all prisoners had a significant amount of time out
of cell and there was a 2145 hours lock-up, seven days a week (paragraph 5.11).
- The establishment had produced a Benefits Agency letter in which prisoners only had to
fill in personal details before posting in order to claim outstanding benefits that might
be due to them (paragraph 6.14).
- The social work unit had an IT programme to log and track their work, thereby ensuring
that up-to-date information was always on hand (paragraph
6.43).
- All visitors to the establishment had to go through an identification process that
involved a video image and a fingerprint scan (paragraph
6.79).
- Prisoners' photographs were included in the medical records (paragraph 8.36).
- The prison used a customised medical admission assessment form, which paid particular
attention to assisting the examiner to highlight any psychiatric risks, through a
comprehensive check-list of risk factors (paragraph 8.37).
- There was a specially designed and structured emergency hospital referral form, which
set out relevant important information about prisoners and details of any medical actions
already taken prior to the transfer from prison to accident and emergency department (paragraph 8.37).
- Where appropriate, medical records also contained a set of shared care forms as part of
the management of prisoners who were infected with a blood borne virus, especially
Hepatitis C (paragraph 8.38).
- A duplicate copy of prisoners' dental records was kept in the medical records (paragraphs 8.54 and 8.58).
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