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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-08314

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 22 March 2017
  • Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 18 April 2017

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the average frequency of monitoring visits per prison is by (a) independent prison monitors and (b) prison monitoring coordinators.


Answer

HMP Open Estate – 1.09 per week

HMP Glenochil – 1.3 per week

HMP and YOI Grampian – 1 per week

HMP Inverness – 1.07 per week

HMP Perth – 1.14 per week

HMP Addiewell – 1.17 per week

HMP and YOI Cornton Vale – 1.14 per week

HMP Edinburgh – 1.20 per week

HMP and YOI Polmont – 1.09 per week

HMP Shotts – 1.20 per week

HMP Barlinnie – 1.37 per week

HMP Low Moss – 1.17 per week

HMP Kilmarnock – 1.20 per week

HMP Greenock – 1.29 per week

HMP Dumfries – 1.04 per week

Rota visits were carried out by Prison Monitoring Co-ordinators at a frequency of one a month or less up to 30 December 2016: