Artist impression of the new visitor centre opening 2009

Welcome to the new Polmont! Those of you who have visited before will note that all of our new buildings are open. For those of you who are visiting for the first time I hope that you will be impressed by the buildings. Although still a prison, I hope that we have managed to provide buildings that are fit for purpose and environmentally friendly. For those of you that have visited regularly over the last two and half years I thank you for your patience and support throughout the building process. Hopefully we now have a facility that staff, visitors and prisoners can be proud of.

Family, friends and those working to support offenders can have a very positive influence on the way that a young person serves his sentence within Polmont. I would encourage you all to be supportive and remain positive throughout the sentence, thereby encouraging your friend or relative to gain maximum benefit from his time here. We are not here to judge people but to help people make behavioural change that will prevent them returning to serve a further period of imprisonment.

There are many opportunities available to people within Polmont and I would ask you to speak to staff about what you can do to encourage the person that you are visiting.

On this home page for Polmont you will see links to other information and I would encourage you to read the links to broaden your knowledge about what actually happens within this prison.

The family support is the key to helping to change the individual that we are holding. We also recognise that from time to time family and close supportive friends also require some support and guidance in coming to terms with issues surrounding the term of imprisonment. We are here to help and if you feel that you could benefit from some advice or assistance then please do not hesitate to contact Polmont. We will add to the links on display for Polmont and from time to time change some of the information. If you are of the opinion that there is more that we could display then please ask when you next visit or write in offering your suggestions.

D. McGill
Governor
5 January 2010