When travelling east on the M8 take exit at junction 12 Stepps and Riddrie. If you require further information you can contact us as follows: It is the experience of the Scottish Prison Service that adopting this process ensures that your client receives his or her correspondence unopened and assists in mitigating the abuse of the right to receive such correspondence in this way. If you are writing to your client, the Scottish Prison Service considers that it is necessary that you adopt the “double envelope” process as recommended by the Law Society. If sending a letter to a prisoner, put their name, prison number and location, followed by the postal address If you need to contact the prison, here are some useful numbers-įamily Contact Officer 01 (FCO - The phone is not staffed at all times during the day, but there is an answer machine service so please leave your name and contact details and we will get back to you as soon as possible).įamily Contact Officer Email Address Work Unit 01 introduced.ġ972 Special Unit in Female block (until 1994). Average 3,600 prisoner visits per monthġ887 C Hall commissioned and old gate completed.ġ888 House for chaplain and doctor built outside gate.ġ890 Link corridor A, B, C halls were built.ġ893 Chapel completed and perimeter extended to build E Hall.ġ908 Old sheds built with alterations to E Hall.ġ933 Alterations to D hall and new office block built adjacent to the gate.ġ955 Female block built (closure of Duke St).ġ960 Reception area reconstructed and V.T.Average 45,000 prisoner movements to Courts, transfers etc.Average 8,000 prisoner admissions per annum.Average numbers in custody for 2013/2014 – 1305.In recent years Barlinnie has taken prisoners from all over Scotland in order to facilitate the new building programme within the Scottish Prison Service. There is also a national top end for offenders who are life sentence offenders approaching a potential release date. The prison houses male offenders, remand and convicted who are serving less than 4 years. Barlinnie is a large local prison, receiving prisoners from the courts in the west of Scotland.