Deaths at young offender institution in Scotland ‘could have been avoided’

The report into the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay at Polmont identified ‘a catalogue of failures’ in the system charged with their care. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The deaths of two young people in custody could have been avoided, according to the long-awaited report of a joint inquiry into their suicides within months of one another.

The 419-page document, which identified “a catalogue of failures” in the system that was charged with their care, prompted their families’ lawyer to call on the UK government to end prisons’ immunity from prosecution.