The HM Prison Barlinnie

The HM Prison Barlinnie is a penitentiary found in the northeastern side of Glasgow, Scotland, in the Riddrie neighborhood.

Built next to the Monkland Canal in July 1882, Barlinnie opened to address a need of building a prison facility. To date, it is Scotland’s largest prison, with a regular capacity of holding almost over a thousand prisoners, even though it was built to hold about 1,018. The prison today receives convicts from the

West of Scotland courts as well as maintaining male prisoners who may be returned to custody andthose sentenced to less than four years.

Barlinnie also distributes suitable prisoners from its convicted populace to lower security penitentiaries, which includes HMP Greenock and HMP Low Moss as well as facilitating long-term convicts in the first phase of their sentence, before their transfer to HMP Peterhead, HMP Kilmarnock, HMP Shotts, or HMP Glenochil all of which are long-term prisons.

Consisting of five accommodation halls, Barlinnie prison’s A, B, C, D, and E halls were built with the periods of 1882 to 1897. At the time, each hall held approximately 200 prisoners. It also has a hospital unit with can accommodate 18 prisoners. This includes 8 cells specially built for suicide watch.