Scottish Prison Service Campuses

This campus specialises in learning and rehabilitation programmes for adult male prisoners, designed as a 'learning prison' focusing on addressing offending behaviour, improving employability, wellbeing, and building community support networks to reduce reoffending. It provides 40 hours of purposeful activity per week through learning, skills, jobs, and interventions, with a peer support model where prisoners deliver classes and support services.

• Offending behaviour interventions
• Employability and vocational training
• Peer-led education classes
• Sports and physical activities
• Induction and wellbeing programmes
• Community reintegration support

Partnerships with local organisations offer courses in literacy, numeracy, IT, construction, and personal development to prepare individuals for release and successful societal reintegration.

The Barlinnie campus is the largest prison in Scotland, focusing on remand and convicted male prisoners from western Scotland courts, including a national top end for life sentence prisoners nearing release. It emphasises rehabilitation through structured regimes and programmes to support sentence progression and reintegration.

• Rehabilitation and anger management courses
• Vocational training in trades
• Education in core skills
• Drug and alcohol support programmes
• Life skills and family contact initiatives

The campus offers a range of accredited qualifications and interventions tailored to prisoner needs, promoting personal development and reducing reoffending risks.

The Bella Centre campus provides community custody for low supervision women and young people in shared houses, emphasising trauma-informed, gender-specific accommodation to develop independent living skills and community reintegration in Dundee.

• Independent living skills training
• Trauma recovery programmes
• Gender-specific support courses
• Community access and networking
• Life skills workshops

Focus on building support networks and real-life skills through shared living environments and local service access.

Scotland's only open prison campus focuses on low supervision adult males, emphasising personal responsibility, job readiness, and positive citizenship through community access and preparation for release.

• Job readiness training
• Community work placements
• Personal development programmes
• Citizenship and responsibility courses
• Extended licence activities

Regime supports risk-managed release preparation with unescorted day releases and weekend visits.

This campus serves local courts in Dumfries and Galloway, housing remand, short-term convicted males, and national protected prisoners, with focus on local and specialised custody management.

• Protected prisoner programmes
• Short-term rehabilitation
• Local court preparation courses
• Basic skills education

Supports transition for low-risk individuals with community-facing approaches.

A major community-facing campus for adult males from Edinburgh, Lothians, Borders, and Fife courts, managing remand to life sentence prisoners with comprehensive rehabilitation services.

• Sentence management programmes
• Vocational and academic education
• Health and addiction support
• Family and throughcare links

Offers links centre for employment, housing, and social services.

Specialist campus for adult males including sex offenders and long-term prisoners, serving Forth Valley and Fife, with focus on high-security management and rehabilitation.

• Sex offender treatment programmes
• Long-term sentence progression
• Core skills and vocational training
• Psychological interventions

Modern facilities support structured regimes for sentence planning.

Purpose-built community-facing campus housing males and females from north Scotland, focusing on local custody and reintegration with modern facilities.

• Local remand and convicted programmes
• Gender-specific education
• Skills and employability training
• Community justice initiatives

Supports diverse population with tailored interventions.

Local community-facing campus for males and females from Inverclyde and north Strathclyde, with national top end for low supervision long-term males and gender-specific facilities.

• Short and long-term rehabilitation
• Female convicted programmes
• Top end progression courses
• Vocational skills

Emphasis on local population support.

Serves Highlands and Islands courts with mixed male/female remand and convicted prisoners, focusing on regional custody and modernised facilities for sentence management.

• Regional remand preparation
• Short-term education
• Transfer support programmes
• Life skills training

Modern updates include in-cell sanitation and activities.

Local receiving campus for Ayr and Kilmarnock courts, housing diverse prisoner types in a 500-cell facility with focus on initial custody and progression.

• Court receiving programmes
• Diverse sentence management
• Basic education and skills
• Rehabilitation interventions

Supports wide range of needs in East Ayrshire.

Community custody unit for low supervision women and young people in Glasgow, using shared houses to promote independent living and reintegration.

• Independent living skills
• Trauma-informed support
• Gender-specific courses
• Community relationship building

Develops real-life skills in urban setting.

Manages North Strathclyde males from remand to life sentences, with links centre for practical support and family programmes like Early Years Scotland initiatives.

• Family engagement programmes
• Employment and housing links
• Addiction and throughcare
• Offending behaviour courses
• Fathers' and play-based learning

Strong focus on reintegration and family ties.

Large campus for Perthshire, Dundee, Angus, Fife courts, handling all male sentence types including sexual offenders, with community focus.

• Sexual offender programmes
• Long-term sentence courses
• Vocational training
• Remand support

Comprehensive regime for diverse population.

National facility for young males 18-21 and short-term adult females/males, focusing on youth justice and sentence types from court.

• Youth offending programmes
• Short-term adult education
• Diverse population support
• Gender-specific interventions

Tailored for young offenders.

Dedicated to long-term adult males with National Integration Centre for early sentence stages, focusing on preparation for mainstream prisons.

• Long-term prisoner programmes
• Integration and progression courses
• High-security rehabilitation
• Structured regime activities

Sole facility for this cohort.

National facility for remand and convicted young/adult women with mother-baby unit, across eight housing units, focusing on female custody.

• Women's rehabilitation programmes
• Mother and baby support
• Young female education
• Gender-specific interventions

Specialised female estate services.