Peterhead unlocked: How SAS troops crushed inmates who started a riot and seized control of D Block for five days CONS took a prison officer hostage and battled wardens from the jail's roof before ...

Photographs taken during one of Scotland's most notorious prison riots are going on public display for the first time. Thirty years ago this week, 50 inmates took control of D-hall at Peterhead ...

Scotland's newest prison, which was shaken by a riot just months after opening, is performing well but can improve its health care, a report said. HMP Grampian in Peterhead opened in March 2014 ...

A CONVICTED killer, one of the ringleaders in an infamous prison siege which was crushed by the SAS, has gone on the run. Malcolm Leggat, 42, who has a long history of violence, failed to return ...

The jail at Peterhead, which is capable of housing 500 inmates, opened in 2014, replacing two older prisons, HMP Peterhead and HMP Aberdeen. But the prison’s Cruden Hall block, which can house ...

Scotland's watchdog has issued another scathing report on Peterhead Prison. Chief Inspector of Prisons Andrew McLellan said conditions for some prisoners were "as bad as ever". His report criticises ...

SCOTTISH prisons were blighted by trouble in 1987, with serious unrest in jails all over the country. It was as if a trouble-making virus was spreading from one prison to another. Peterhead, where ...

Photographs of the 1987 Peterhead Prison riot are going on public display for the first time. ... He was repeatedly beaten and taken on to the roof of the cell block, 90ft above the ground, ...