Polmont is the largest young offenders' institution ... We flagged this up with two of the prison officers and we now know that, just before she died, they had told her she might be moved to ...

The brother of a young woman who took her own life while in a young offenders prison says the justice system killed her. Katie Allan was 21 when she was found dead in her cell at Polmont Young ...

They are still within the ­ Scottish prison after losing a last-ditch appeal against their extradition to the US, after the ...

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Katie’s mother, Linda Allan, described what happened as a “complete systemic failure among the prison service” She said: “Katie was brutalised in Polmont, so much so that she lost all hope ...

A fatal accident inquiry heard how both inmates were vulnerable while at the Polmont facility near Falkirk. In a damning assessment of the Scottish Prison Service and healthcare services ...

I’m just not made for prison at all and could no longer deal ... She added: “Katie could no longer cope with the brutality of Polmont. Katie had made a fatal decision. "She broke the law.

He said: “The Scottish Prison Service, former prison governors, senior management at Polmont the Forth Valley Heath Board, as well as Scottish Government, first ministers and successive 3 ...

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS ... who took their own lives in Polmont Young Offenders Institution in 2018. But she said there were issues with "organisational culture" in Scottish prisons ...

Her parents Stuart and Linda claimed bullying and "humiliating" strip searches led her to take her own life at Polmont. They said prison staff failed to heed warnings that Katie was "vulnerable ...

Alexander Cormack, who was a prison officer for 30 years, was working at Polmont on October 5, 2018. At the inquiry on Friday, advocate depute Leanne Cross asked Mr Cormack how he felt about Mr ...