The existing HMP Barlinnie, built in 1880, was recently criticised for its apparently inadequate facilities. HM Inspectorate of Prisons concluded in last year’s report that the prison’s ...

Michael Stoney said Barlinnie was the "insurance policy" for overcrowded prisons The governor of Barlinnie says he would "struggle" to survive life inside his own overcrowded prison. Michael ...

Swinney insists he wants to make sure there is a replacement prison that is safe and secure. HMP Glasgow will replace Barlinnie, which has been labelled not fit for purpose We now know the ...

He explained: “The main difference is at a Victorian prison, the transactional tasks take up all the time. "In Barlinnie, it takes an hour and a half for a meal in one house block.

Barlinnie's days as a prison are numbered with news it is to be replaced by HMP Glasgow. It's a grim place, with grizzly past, where until a little over 60 years ago some of Scotland's most notorious ...

The boss of Scotland’s largest prison has said he wants the jail being built to replace it to be similar to a Costa coffee shop. Michael Stoney, governor of Barlinnie in Glasgow, said the new ...

Barlinnie’s prison chief has told of his wish for Glasgow’s new super jail to be “like a Costa Coffee.” Michael Stoney, has spoken about the £1bn replacement of the notorious Provanmill ...

The projected cost of a new prison replacing Scotland's notorious HMP Barlinnie has more than doubled to almost ... are comparable with similar prison projects elsewhere in the UK." HM Inspectorate of ...

The governor of Barlinnie says he would "struggle" to survive life inside his own overcrowded prison. Michael Stoney described Scotland's largest jail as a "pressure cooker" and said new early ...