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A joint fatal accident inquiry was announced last week into the deaths of Katie Allan and teenager William Lindsay, who both took their lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution.

Katie Allan, 21, and William Lindsay, 16, both took their own lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in 2018. Their families have bemoaned the delay in a hearing taking place and have called for justice.

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The families of young Scots who died by suicide in jail have argued that the Scottish Prison Service has not been held accountable over their deaths.

A discovery by Labour MSP Monica Lennon revealed the worrying rise in deaths across Scottish prisons. In 2019 a report by the Scottish government revealed Scotland had some of the worst death rates in Europe.

Scottish prison deaths in recent years include the death of 21-year-old Katie Allan at Polmont Young Offenders Institute in 2018, and the death of Allan Marshall in 2015 after he was restrained by prison officers during a struggle at Saughton Prison.