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June 26, 2023
An exhibition called Echoes of Isolation runs at Spike Island until the end of the summer. COLETTE SHERIDAN talks to the woman behind the works, who ...
July 25, 2022
Jailbreaks in Nigeria point to the need to reform the justice system.
October 19, 2021
A new large-scale model highlights how trains travelled from Peterhead prison on a route past a distillery and the lost village of Burnhaven.
October 19, 2021
A new large-scale model highlights how trains travelled from Peterhead prison on a route past a distillery and the lost village of Burnhaven.
January 8, 2021
Trailblazing Peterhead Prison railway line ferried criminals to a place of hard labour Updated: 08/01/2021, 2:54 pm © Supplied by Peterhead Prison Mus It was the first state-owned passenger-carrying railway in Britain; a product of Victoriana which ferried criminals to a place of hard labour in the north-east of Scotland. And although it is more than 50 years since the closure of the Peterhead Prison railway, a new exhibition is being organised to highlight how the route ran past such places a...