Scottish Prison Service

Scottish Prison Service

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) (Scottish Gaelic: "Seirbheisean nam prìosan Albanach") an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing Scotland's prisons. Currently the prospect of criminals starting prison at a younger age is being widely debated.Fact|date=December 2007 Currently prisoners in scottish jails can only be sentenced to HMP's at the age of 21, anyone under the age of 21 is sent to a custodial youth offenders institute (HMYOI). The Cabinet Secretary for Justice is responsible for the Scottish Prison Service within the Scottish Government. The current Chief Executive is Mike Ewart and supporting him is the Prisons Board consisting of:

*Barbara Allison - Human Resources
*Mike Duffy - Prisons
*Rachel Gwyon - Corporate Services
*Eric Murch - Partnerships and Commissioning
*Dr Andrew Fraser - Health and Care
*Willie Pretswell - Finance

with Bill Carr, Eric Jackson and Elinor Smith as non-executive Directors.

List of establishments

*HMP Aberdeen
*HMP Edinburgh
*HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow
*HMP Castle Huntly, Longforgan, Perth and Kinross (Open prison)
*HMP Dumfries, Dumfries
*HMP & YOI Cornton Vale, Stirling - (Young Offenders Institute and Women's Prison)
*HMP Greenock, Inverclyde
*HMP Inverness
*HMP Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire (Operated by Serco Group as part of a Public-private partnership scheme)
*HMP Low Moss, East Dunbartonshire (Currently closed pending redevelopment)
*HMP Noranside, Angus (Open prison)
*HMP Perth
*HMP Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
*HMYOI Polmont, Falkirk (Young Offenders Institute)
*HMP Shotts, North Lanarkshire

Other Responsibilities

Prisoner Escorting

In November 2003 SPS signed a contract on behalf of Scottish Ministers for a "Prisoner Escort and Court Custody Service". This contract with Reliance Custodial Services provides for all prisoner escorting between Police Offices, Court, Prisons and Hospitals as well as covering escorts from Prison such as Funerals, Hospital appointments and Community Placements.

Secure hospital

Some prisoners are detained in a secure mental hospital. This is run by the Scottish National Health Service rather than the SPS.
*State Hospital for Scotland and Northern Ireland, [http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/tsh/] Carstairs, South Lanarkshire

References

ee also

*Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland (a post currently held by Andrew McLellan)
*List of Scottish Executive agencies
*Reliance Custodial Services
*Scots law
*Scottish Court Service
*State Hospitals Board for Scotland
*Criminal Justice Social Work Services, probation services are provided by local authorities in Scotland
*Serco Group, provides electronic tagging

External links

* [http://www.sps.gov.uk/ SPS official website]

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