HM Prison Friarton
LocationPerth, Scotland
Coordinates56°22′25.4″N 3°25′17″W / 56.373722°N 3.42139°W / 56.373722; -3.42139
StatusClosed (original building demolished; merged into HM Prison Perth)
Capacity89
Opened1963[1]
Closed2010
Street addressEdinburgh Road
CityPerth
CountryScotland

HM Prison Friarton (later Friarton Detention Centre, Friarton Borstal and Friarton Hall Young Offenders Institution) was a place of detention for young (male) offenders aged between 16 and 21. It was located on the outskirts of Perth, Scotland, opposite the southern end of the city's Friarton Island. It occupied the former site of Friarton Fever Hospital,[2] designed by Perth natives J. & G. Young.[3] Upon its opening in 1963, it became one of two such establishments in Scotland, the other being South Inch House (what is now HM Prison Glenochil) in Clackmannanshire.[4]

The facility was established after South Inch House reached its capacity. It changed from being a youth detention centre into being a Borstal four years later, after South Inch House expanded its capacity, before becoming a young offenders institute in April 1970.[1]

In 1999, the Institution became part of HM Prison Perth, just over a mile to the north on the same Edinburgh Road, and its buildings demolished to make way for a housing estate.[2][5][6] In 2010, the facility within HM Prison Perth it moved to was put on the market because it was "underused and had inadequate facilities".[7]

References

  1. 1 2 SCOTTISH DETENTION CENTRE INMATES: A CRIMINOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT (Reginald Wilson, 1970)
  2. 1 2 Perth and Kinross Archived 24 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine - Historic Hospitals
  3. ↑ "GPK Young" Archived 16 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine – Perthshire Society of Natural Science
  4. ↑ "Return to the error of old ways" Archived 4 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine - The Herald, 24 February 1993
  5. ↑ "First glimpse of plans for former prison site" Archived 4 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine - The Courier, 23 January 2013
  6. ↑ "HM Prison Perth". Gazetteer for Scotland. Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  7. ↑ "Spacious and secure Friarton prison hall going on market" Archived 4 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine - The Courier, 7 February 2020
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