• Hermiston, Ingliston and Ratho. The prison receives inmates from the courts in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders. The prison manages adult male individuals...
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  • Peter Tobin (category Scottish people who died in prison custody)
    serial killer and sex offender who served a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for three murders committed between 1991 and 2006. Police also investigated...
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    Saughton (redirect from Saughton, Edinburgh)
    of Leith flows by here. It is the location of HM Prison Edinburgh, known colloquially as "Saughton Prison", in the south of the district. The A71 road...
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    built by the Town Council of Edinburgh at its own expense. The Old Tolbooth remained in use by the Burgh council as a prison. In 1811 the council moved...
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  • downgraded to category B. HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs is an example of a Category B prison. They are the equivalent of a medium security prison in the United States...
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    Macpherson. He also claimed he was being "taunted" by remand prisoners at HM Prison Edinburgh singing "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by John Denver to him. In a podcast...
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    convicted and located in other prisons, primarily HMP Perth, HMP Edinburgh, HMP Barlinnie and HMP Grampian. The prison has a design capacity of 670 prisoners...
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  • bearing on the Bryson case. Bryson was moved to a men's wing of HM Prison Edinburgh later the same day. It was later reported that Sturgeon had personally...
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  • and staff from series one prisons HMP Barlinnie, HMP Greenock and HMP Low Moss with HM Prison Edinburgh added as a new prison. In October 2015, STV Productions...
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    HMP Addiewell is a private prison located near to the village of Addiewell in West Lothian, Scotland. HMP Addiewell is operated by Sodexo Justice Services...
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  • In 1999, the Institution became part of HM Prison Perth, just over a mile to the north on the same Edinburgh Road, and its buildings demolished to make...
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  • Matt Lygate (section Prison)
    committing bodily harm, serving 11 years of a 24-year sentence in HM Prison Edinburgh. He is noted for his strong anti-revisionist stance and adoption...
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  • to construct HMP Inverclyde, a large women's prison near the existing HM Prison Greenock. The new prison, built on the former site of St Columba's High...
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    Aylesbury - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports Victorian Prisoners Database at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies History of Aylesbury Prison from theprison...
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    Edinburgh City Chambers in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the meeting place of the City of Edinburgh Council and its predecessors, Edinburgh Corporation and...
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    Calton Hill, beside the south-east corner of Old Calton Burial Ground, in Edinburgh, Scotland. It looks out over Waverley Station, the Canongate and Holyrood...
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  • Castle Huntly is a castle in Scotland, now used as a prison under the name HMP Castle Huntly. It is located approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Dundee...
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    House (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh na Pàrlamaid), located in the Old Town in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a complex of several buildings housing the Supreme Courts...
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    Canongate Tolbooth (category Defunct prisons in Edinburgh)
    Canongate Tolbooth is a historic landmark of the Old Town area of Edinburgh, built in 1591 as a tolbooth, that is, the centre of administration and justice...
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    Scottish Gaelic) is a Scottish Government building situated in Leith, Edinburgh, relatively close to the HRY Britannia museum ship. The building was set...
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    St Andrew's House (category Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh)
    Taigh Naoimh Anndra), on the southern flank of Calton Hill in central Edinburgh, is the headquarters building of the Scottish Government. The building...
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  • Robert Maxwell Dudgeon (category British prison governors)
    before he retired in 1920. From 1920 to 1930, he was Governor of HM Prison Edinburgh; and from 1930 to 1945 Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland...
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    housing, as well as former housing for prisoner officers of the nearby HM Prison Edinburgh. Longstone borders Craiglockhart to the east, Kingsknowe and Colinton...
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    St Andrew Square to the east end of Princes Street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It also houses the Court of the Lord Lyon and housed the Office...
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    Scottish Parliament Building (category Government buildings in Edinburgh)
    Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of...
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    HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland was established in 1981, following recommendations of the May Committee report of 1979. The Inspectorate is directly...
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  • John Gollan (category Politicians from Edinburgh)
    conditions, an activity for which he was sentenced to 6 months in HM Prison Edinburgh. After a popular campaign calling for his release, he was freed in...
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    building in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built 1861–65 on the site of the Old Theatre Royal, between Waterloo Place and North Bridge, Edinburgh, to the design...
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    Vol. X. Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House. Pitcairn, Robert, ed. (1833). Criminal trials in Scotland, from 1488 to 1624. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: William...
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    Lothian Chambers (category Category B listed buildings in Edinburgh)
    Midlothian County Buildings, is a municipal structure on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland. The structure, which accommodates the Consulate-General of...
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