The parents of Katie Allan have slammed the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) after it emerged suicide rates have increased by 42 per cent since the introduction of a preventative scheme.
Linda and Stuart Allan, whose daughter took her own life at Polmont in 2018, have hit out after a new report from Glasgow University found there have been 121 deaths in prison in Scotland since the start of 2022, with suicide and drugs deaths on the rise and the death rate higher than in England.
Researchers found that from September 2020 to this year there were 29 deaths from suicide, 25 from drugs (with a further eight whose cause is undetermined), 15 to coronavirus, 42 attributed to 'other' causes such as medical conditions and two homicides.
