For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. Improvements to the laundry should be implemented as a matter of urgency.

For Area Director and Governor I/C

1. The revised plan for the refurbishment of the accommodation Halls should proceed as a matter of priority with appropriate funds being made available to ensure that the work can be undertaken.

2. The Governor should include in his Strategic Plan, a proposal to replace the section of inner fence with a wall.

3. The Emergency Control Room should be expanded and refurbished as a matter of priority.

4. A purpose built separate cells unit with self-contained facilities and dedicated staffing is an immediate priority.

5. There should be an urgent appraisal of how prisoners should spend their time with consideration being given to the possibility of introducing a timetabling system for regime activities.

6. The Contracts team should be provided with a purpose-built unit with appropriate facilities.

58 Points of Note were also recorded.

‘D’ Hall opened Nov 97

‘C’ Hall redecorated Nov 97-Jan 98.

‘A’ Hall redecoration may

commence Summer 98.

Effected.

Ongoing.

Now under construction,

likely to be complete by

Autumn 98.

Ongoing.

Ongoing.

(published 19 August 1997)

1. There should be a review of the policy and practices in respect of the custody of remand prisoners.

28 Points of Note were recorded and responded to by SPS HQ.

(published 24 September 1997)

For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. A reduction in the present levels of critical overcrowding needs to be achieved on a strategic basis.

2. The facilities available for Physical Education should be extended and improved by the provision of a new PE complex.

3. A new purpose-built laundry facility should be constructed with proper kit store arrangements.

4. A full-time Medical Officer should be formally appointed to provide leadership and team co-ordination amongst the medical practitioners.

For Area Director/Governor I/C

1. The introduction of standards of cell conditions and furniture which are consistent and vigorously maintained are necessary to ensure basic decent conditions for prisoners in the traditional Halls.

2. Existing routines should be altered to ensure that basic standards of decency in areas such as exercise, fresh air and clean kits are uniformly met.

3. The introduction of appropriate induc-tion programmes for prisoners should be addressed as a matter of urgency.

4. The proposals currently being explored to improve the employment situation should be taken forward without delay to ensure that purposeful activity is provided for all convicted prisoners on a more equitable basis.

5. The plans to improve the Catering service should be given the appropriate financial and other support to ensure that they are implemented quickly. Immediate action is also needed to eliminate all bad and unhygienic practices in the food distribution system.

6. The problems with regard to profe-ssional control over the pharmacy and control of drugs require to be resolved as soon as possible.

7. The appointment of a Human Resources Manager should be expedited.

27 Points of Note were also recorded.

Accepted - however, it is likely there will be considerable delay in implementation.

Accepted, but

implementation is likely to be delayed.

Implemented.

Largely implemented

(see Intermediate

Report April 1998).

As above.

A pilot is now

underway.

New targets have been set.

Being implemented.

Agreed.

Implemented.

(published 9 December 1997)

For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. Action should be taken to resolve the problem of the extremely unhygienic conditions which were being caused by unsatisfactory cell windows.

2. The newly appointed Governor should be given the time and therefore the opportunities to provide strategic direction and support to staff.

For Area Director and Governor I/C

1. Family contact measures should be improved by an increase in the number of card telephones throughout the Institution and an adjustment to the visits system with the particular aim of increasing the length of visits at weekends.

2. A full-time drug addictions worker should be appointed.

3. The induction process should be reviewed with the aim of introducing a system which is both adequately resourced and able to meet the needs of the population.

4. The outside football pitch should be upgraded by the provision of an all-weather surface.

5. An additional nurse practitioner should be appointed.

28 Points of Note were also recorded.

Agreed.

Agreed and

implemented.

Agreed - but this may be a shared post with

another establishment.

This has been reviewed.

Accepted.

Accepted. Budgetary

provision has been

made by the Governor.

(published 4 February 1998)

For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. A detailed survey of local custodial trends should be undertaken, accompanied at the very least by much more robust contingency planning for a burgeoning prisoner population; this should include staffing levels as well as buildings.

2. A new workshed complex should be provided.

3. A new combined Operations Room/Visits Area/Staff Facilities complex should be constructed with consideration being given to the provision of some additional health care facilities within that complex.

For Area Director/Governor I/C

1. The two part-time drug officer posts should be made full-time as soon as possible.

32 Points of Note were also recorded.

No assurances given.

No assurances given.

A bid is in the Strategic Plan - but there are no assurances that this will be implemented.

(published 9 April 1998)

For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. The SPS should more clearly define and then strictly implement, a policy which ensures that prisoners are transferred from the NIC to HMPs Perth, Shotts and Glenochil without undue delay and that they are not disadvantaged in terms of subsequent progression.

For Area Director/Governor I/C

1. As a matter of priority, CCTV surveillance equipment should be installed in the staircase within the accommodation area and on each of the landings.

2. An Addictions Worker should be appointed on a part-time basis, with consideration being given to drawing on the professional expertise of existing Addictions Workers currently employed in the SPS as an interim measure until such time as this appointment can be made.

14 Points of Note were also recorded.

Installed.

Agreed.

(published 27 May 1998)

For SPS HQ/Area Director

1. An early decision should be taken with regard to the future of Low Moss as part of the SPS Estate.

For Area Director/Governor-in-Charge

1. An immediate and complete review of the laundry arrangements should be undertaken to assist the establishment in meeting the relevant SPS Operating Standards in relation to prisoners’ clothing and bedding.

2. All prisoner programmes, including those which are drug-related, should in future be developed to match the aggregated needs of the majority of the establishment’s prisoners.

3. A part-time Harm Reduction Drugs Worker should be appointed in the very near future.

4. The number of telephones available for prisoners use should be increased in line with the establishment Strategic Bid.

43 Points of Note were also recorded.

Agreed.

Agreed.

A full-time drugs

strategy coordinator is being appointed.

Agreed.

The Scottish Office should examine whether increased services are required, particularly in the West of Scotland, to support court decision-making about the use of bail.

The Scottish Office should consult with the courts and local authorities on what more could be done to reduce the numbers of women defaulting on their fines and the numbers of women being received into custody as a result. In particular, The Scottish Office should examine:

• The circumstances in which fines are imposed on women, including the types of offence, particularly offences associated with the sex industry and failure to buy a TV licence;

• The scope for reducing the numbers of people who default on fines, for example through the introduction of unitary fines based on a day fines system; and

• The impact of Supervised Attendance Orders on receptions into custody for fine default.

An inter-agency project should be set up in Glasgow under the direction of a high level Steering Group to bring together all the main partners in the criminal justice system, both in the public and independent sector to resolve at a local level the issues identified in this report. Participants should include social work, housing providers, the Procurator Fiscal service, sentencers (including the stipendiary Magistrate), Sheriff Clerks, the police, health services, the SPS and key voluntary sector agencies.

All local authorities should review their arrangements to ensure that criminal justice social work services are tailored to work with women offenders and report the outcome of their reviews to SWSI by the end of November 1998.

Information currently collected by The Scottish Office, local authorities and others, should separately identify data relating to women offenders. The Scottish Office should collate and publish statistics on women offenders from the year 2000 onwards.

The Scottish Office should consult on how to ensure that by the year 2000, young women under 18 years of age are not held in prison establishments and on how and by when to achieve the same for males under 18. Young people under 18 who require a custodial environment should be held in secure accommodation.

The Scottish Prison Service should forthwith revise its estates strategy for women and implement a number of other measures, via the following:

• The recently introduced initiative of doubling up some prisoners should become a permanent arrangement, by the adaptation to buildings at Cornton Vale. This will also reduce the number of places available to the courts.

• Facilities for women offenders from the West of Scotland should be created at HMP Kilmarnock; additionally, the existing facilities at Inverness and Dumfries should be reviewed with a view to modest expansion.

• The various subsidiary proposals made in the report to be actioned by no later than the end of 1999.

Agreed.

This is being set up in

June 1998.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Agreed in principle for women, but there are considerable resource implications. Males will be subject to separate study.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Not agreed (problems with the contract which was signed before this recommendation was made.)

Agreed.