The cost of HMP Glasgow has more than doubled from its 2019 estimate of £400m to £998.4m. This is nearly 10 times the original 2014 estimate of £100m, which was cited by an auditor to a ...

A NEW prison to replace Glasgow’s 143-year-old HMP Barlinnie has been approved – and will cost around £1 billion. Initial estimates for the new prison – HMP Glasgow – had been around £170 million.

The Scottish Government has announced that a construction contract has now been signed to build the long-awaited HMP Glasgow, which will replace the city’s infamous Barlinnie jail.

HMP Hull inmate John Chambers was recalled to prison in January 2021 having previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual offences. He died three years later on June 17, 2024.

HMP Glasgow will replace Barlinnie, which has been labelled not fit for purpose The replacement for Barlinnie prison will cost nearly £1bn, almost double the previous estimate. Justice Secretary ...

It is the biggest festival of the year in China, signalling the start of spring, and this is the year of the wood snake. According to Chinese astrology, the characteristics of the snake ...

A Prison Service spokesperson said it was continuing to take advice from specialists to explore how HMP Dartmoor could be ... or a craft centre for wood-working. "These might be fanciful ideas ...

Mark Fairhurst, who is both the national chairman of the POA and a HMP Liverpool prison officer, said an increase in the number of violent prisoners housed in the jail was adding to the problems ...

Joseph Whittingham, who was embroiled in a drugs scandal at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster, died at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes on January 12. The cause of his death is yet to be disclosed and is ...

Her son needed help with addiction. Instead, he's been spending Christmas in an N.L. jail HMP inmates denied medical attention, rehab programs due to staff shortages, documents reveal She said ...

Parents and advocates carried signs reading “Justice for Mental Health, not isolation,” and “no drugs in jail.” Beverly, whose son Mitchell Murphy is incarcerated at HMP, says her son’s mental health ...