SCOTTISH PRISON SERVICE

The 'Scottish Prison Service' (SPS) is an executive agency of the Scottish Executive tasked with managing prisons within Scotland. It is responsible to the Minister for Justice.
The current Chief Executive is Tony Cameron 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.

Contents

List of establishments

Other Responsibilities

Prisoner Escorting

Secure hospital

References

See also

External links

List of establishments

★ HMP Aberdeen

★ HMP Edinburgh

★ HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow

★ HMP Castle Huntly, Longforgan, Perth and Kinross - open prison

★ HMP Cornton Vale, Stirling - women's prison

★ HMYOI Cornton Vale, Stirling - young offenders institute

★ HMP Greenock, Inverclyde

★ HMP Inverness

★ HMP Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, run by Serco Group as a privately operated prison

★ HMP Low Moss, East Dunbartonshire

★ 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, [1] Carstairs, South Lanarkshire

References

See 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

★ SPS Official website

★ Aditors report on the SPS, by Audit Scotland