Finding the necessary staffing levels to fully utilise accommodation at HMP Grampian would help ease overcrowding elsewhere in Scotland’s jails, according to prisons inspectors. The jail at Peterhead, ...

A man who torched the cars of prison staff during a Christmas Day fire attack will have to wait to learn his fate.

Runforever, a running and activity club at prison HMP Grampian in Peterhead, founded in March 2023 by Paolo Maccagno and Mark Hope, is transforming inmate lives. Meeting twice weekly, it promotes ...

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Prison officers in the North East have been praised for their hard work after new statistics showed some of the lowest turnover and sickness absence rates in Scotland. Did you know with a Digital ...

The number of people in Scotland’s prisons has hit a record high, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said. There were 8,430 people behind bars on Tuesday, above the previous high of 8,420, with the ...

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FORTY-ONE inmates on the second floor of a wing at HMP Grampian refused to leave the area and barricaded themselves in overnight whilst drunk on illicit alcohol made in their cells. PRISONERS who ...

A disturbance at the new HMP Grampian in Peterhead, which involved more than 40 inmates, has been resolved, the Scottish Prison Service has said. The disturbance broke out at about 20:50 on Tuesday on ...

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