Prisons should not be immune from prosecution, says head of Scottish prisons

They’ve been fighting for justice for eight years. This morning the families of two young people who took their own lives inside Scotland’s largest young offenders institute, finally met the head of the Scottish Prison Service.

She agreed with them that rules which prevent state prisons from being prosecuted for safety failures need to change. Their lawyer is calling for a meeting with the Prime Minister to push for this to happen.

Earlier this year an inquiry into the deaths of William Lindsay and Katie Allan found their deaths in Polmont in 2018, could have been avoided if it wasn’t for a catalogue of failures in the system.