| SPS ESTABLISHMENTS AND DESIGN
CAPACITY |
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| North and East |
- HMP Inverness
- Receiving Unit, near
to City Centre of Inverness. 69 places (includes
6 places out of use) and 5 female places: caters
for convicted and remands, including females (NB
70% overcrowded).
- HMP Peterhead
- South of Peterhead.
271 places (includes 62 out of use): mainly
vulnerable prisoners. Will include new Unit in
1995.
- HMP Aberdeen
- Receiving Unit,
Aberdeen. 130 places (includes 6 places
temporarily out of use) and 4 female places:
caters for all remands and convicted.
- HMP Noranside
- Open prison for adult
males, near Forfar. 135 places.
- HMP Perth
- Receiving Unit, south
of Perth Town Centre. 426 places: male prisoners
and remands.
- HMP Friarton
- Security Category C
and D male prison, southern outskirts of Perth.
56 places: (NB 39% overcrowded).
- HMP Edinburgh
- Receiving Unit,
western outskirts of Edinburgh. 508 male places:
(NB 27% overcrowded).
- HMP Glenochil
- Adult male and YOI,
near Alloa. 669 places (includes 131 temporarily
out of use).
- HMYOI Castle
Huntly
- Male Young Offenders
Category D, near Dundee. 144 places.
- HMYOI Polmont
- Young Offenders, near
Falkirk. 414 places (includes 48 temporarily out
of use).
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| South and West |
- HMP Penninghame
- Open prison for adult
males, north of Newton Stewart. 85 places.
- HMP Dungavel
- Open prison for adult
males, south of Strathaven. 135 places.
- HMP Shotts
- Near village of
Shotts. 535 male places (includes 63 places out
of use - 17 temporarily); Shotts Unit and new
National Induction Centre.
- HMP Barlinnie
- Receiving Unit, near
Riddrie, Glasgow. 939 male places (includes 87
places out of use): (Special Unit closed January
1995). (NB 36% overcrowded.)
- HM Institution
Longriggend
- Remand Unit, near
Airdrie. 177 places. (Annex for male YO Remands
Longriggend from Barlinnie.)
- HMP Low Moss
- Mainly Category C,
near Kirkintilloch. 396 male places.
- HMP Greenock
- Receiving Unit,
Greenock. 172 male places.
- HMP and HMYOI
Dumfries
- Receiving Unit and
YOI and all remands, Centre of Dumfries. 135
places Dumfries (includes 20 temporarily out of
use) and 4 female places.
- HM Institution
Cornton Vale
- Female prisoners and
YOs, Stirling. 213 places (includes 34 out of
use). Cornton Vale
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| TOTAL |
5,635
places (including 257 places out of use for policy
reasons and 222 temporarily for refurbishment, etc). |
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| HQ and Training |
- SPS College
- Near Falkirk. All SPS
training including recruit induction. 55 staff.
- SPS HQ
- South Gyle,
Edinburgh. 226 staff.
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| SPS TOTAL 4,324 STAFF |
