Scotland's first ever community custody unit for female prisoners has been completed and is set to open next week.
The Bella Centre in Dundee is the first facility of its kind in the UK. It aims to mix traditional custodial sentencing with reintegration into everyday life, and is designed for female prisoners approaching the end of their jail sentences.
Scottish Prison Service bosses say the new unit is designed to look as little like a prison as possible in order to help its prisoners reintegrate with society. The buildings resemble a housing estate, and there are no bars on the windows - nor any barbed wire or high walls.
