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Podcast: Premeditated Patter
Episode: The ENTIRE HISTORY of the Scottish Prison System - HMP Greenock & Dumfries
Description: In this episode we explore the west coast prisons of HMP Greenock and HMP Dumfries. From Greenock’s role as a mixed prison with notorious escapes, riots and high‑profile inmates, tae Dumfries – one of Scotland’s oldest working jails with a history of executions, overcrowding and modern controversy – we uncover the stories behind two prisons that rarely make the headlines but hold a dark place in Scotland’s penal past.