HMP Kilmarnock
LocationKilmarnock, East Ayrshire
StatusOperational
Capacity692 (February 2009)
Opened1999
Managed bySerco
DirectorCraig Thomson

HM Prison Kilmarnock is a prison in Bowhouse, Hurlford near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Hurlford on the Mauchline Road. Its location means it is locally known as Bowhouse Prison.

The prison was opened 25 March 1999 by Premier Prison Services and is privately run by Serco (who acquired Premier in 2002[1]) on behalf of the Scottish Prison Service; the first of its kind in Scotland.

The prison is operated to a contract between Serco and the Scottish Prison Service.[2][3] This contract has a system of 44 performance measures,[3] ranging from ensuring that prisoner's visitors are not unduly delayed on entrance to checking that appropriate levels of purposeful activities are provided to inmates.

In 2005 the BBC program Panorama uncovered several failings in the operational running of the prison, resulting in the prison carrying out internal investigations.

The prison holds short-term, long-term and remand male adults. The contract with the SPS means that HMP Kilmarnock currently holds on average 500 inmates.[2]

Aerial view of HMP Kilmarnock in 2022

References

  1. ↑ Moore, Malcolm (5 June 2002). "Serco locks on to prisons manager". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Kilmarnock Prison". Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Kilmarnock". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2011.

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