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HMP Peterhead was a prison in the town of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. ==History== Peterhead Convict Prison was built around 1888. It was designed to hold 208 prisoners and to be Scotland's only convict prison.〔Scraton, P., Sim, J. & Skidmore, P. (1991) ''Prisons Under Protest'', Buckingham: Open University Press〕 Occupancy averaged at around 350 however, until peaking at 455 in 1911.〔 Additional buildings were completed in 1909, 1960 and 1962, bringing capacity up to 362.〔 According to the Scottish Prison Service, the prison can, at this time, accommodate up to 142 prisoners.〔(Peterhead Prison )〕 It closed in 2013 to be replaced by the new HMP Grampian, the first prison in Scotland to jointly house youths, men and women.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - First inmates at new Grampian prison in Peterhead )〕 The first inmates transferred on to site on 2 March 2014 having been temporarily housed at other sites and connected to family with virtual visits by videolink.〔 Until the opening of Peterhead Convict Prison, Scots convicts were transported to England to serve their sentences. The first convicts were received in August 1888. Peterhead supplied the labour force to work in Stirlinghill Quarry and in the Admiralty Yard attached to the prison. These convicts supported the work of a civilian labour force employed by the Admiralty to construct the Harbour of Refuge breakwater. The Admiralty project was unique in Scotland as it was served by the only state-owned passenger-carrying railway in its day. On 28 September 1987 a riot in D wing Peterhead Prison resulted in prisoners taking over the building and taking a prison officer, 56-year-old Jackie Stuart, hostage. The rioters were serving life in prison for violent crimes. It was thought that they had nothing to lose and would not hesitate to make good on their threats to kill their hostage, whom they had now taken up to the rafters of the Scottish prison. When negotiations broke down, the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, dispatched the SAS to bring the riot to an end on 3 October.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eliteukforces.info/special-air-service/sas-operations/peterhead/ )〕 Peterhead Prison has a history of poor conditions for prisoners, being referred to as "Scotland's gulag, a prison of no hope."〔Scraton, P., Sim, J. & Skidmore, P. (1991) ''Prisons Under Protest'', Buckingham: Open University Press pg.14〕 A 2005 inspection reported that electricity had only just been made available in all the cells and slopping out continues at the prison.〔(HM INSPECTORATE OF PRISONS HMP PETERHEAD INSPECTION: 30-31 MARCH 2005 ) - Retrieved 31/08/07〕 HMP Peterhead was a specialist centre for sex offenders,〔(Peterhead Prison: Granite fortress ) - Retrieved 31/08/07〕 however since the approval of HMP Grampian they have since changed population. Sex offenders are now located in other Scottish prisons. Talks on replacing the current prison with a new one began in 2006.〔("New Peterhead prison is favoured" ) - BBC News〕 They were revived in November 2006.〔("New jail could be built on existing site, says Salmond" ) - This is North Scotland.co.uk〕〔("Superjail Cannot Come Soon Enough" - ThisisNorth Scotland.co.uk, Feb 2008 )〕 Demolition of part of the prison began 13 February 2012, with the opening of the new HMP Grampian planned for winter 2013/14.〔(Peterhead Prison - History )〕 The prison closed on 6 December 2013. The new facility is expected to hold about 500 male and female prisoners - both adults and young offenders - from the Northern Community Justice Authority catchment area.〔(HMP Grampian: Intention to award a contract )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HM Prison Peterhead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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