HMYOI Polmont
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| Location | Polmont, Falkirk |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Young Offenders Institution |
| Capacity | 712 |
| Managed by | Scottish Prison Service |
| Governor | Tony Martin[1] |
His Majesty's Young Offenders Institution Polmont is the largest young offender's institution in Scotland. It is located in the village of Reddingmuirhead.
HMP Polmont first opened as a Borstal in 1911 in the buildings of the former Blairlodge Academy. The Academy had been forced to close in 1908 due to financial difficulties and a subsequent outbreak of an infectious disease, and the Prison Commissioners bought the site in 1911.[2]
As of January 2024, HMP Polmont is no longer exclusively a young offenders institution; short-term, low-supervision adult males can now be transferred there and housed within the facility.[3]
Notable inmates have included murderer Luke Mitchell, Chris Cunningham, star of BBC Scotland's The Scheme, and Aaron Campbell, convicted of carrying out one instance of child abduction, rape and murder.
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.sps.gov.uk/prisons/polmont
- ^ "HMYOI Polmont". Scottish Prison Service. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
- ^ "Polmont | Scottish Prison Service". www.sps.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
External links
[edit]- HM Prison Polmont on the Scottish Prison Service website
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