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| Date | 28 September 1987 – 1 October 1987 |
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| Location | Peterhead Scotland |
| Cause | Better quality prisons |
| Motive | Poor prison conditions |
| Property damage | £55 million (equivalent to £132,989,789 in 2022) |
The Peterhead Prison Riot was a prison riot that occurred on 28 September 1987 at HMP Peterhead, in Peterhead. [1]
HMP Peterhead was a convict prison in Peterhead, Scotland operated from 1888 to 2013.[ citation needed ] It was closed in favour of the neighbouring super prison HMP & YOI Grampian.[ citation needed ] It had a capacity of 152, but at one point in 1911 it was home to 455 prisoners.[ citation needed ]
In preceding year there had been a number of riots and roof top protests by inmates in neighbouring prisons such as at Saughton in Edinburgh and Barlinnie in Glasgow. [2]
Peterhead already had a reputation for disturbances with a riot the previous year, earning it the nickname among inmates as the "Hate Factory" [2] or "Scottish Alcatraz".
The prison was overcrowded and without proper sanitation such as toilets within cells, forcing inmates to slop out their human waste every day. [2]
Many of the prisoners were from the Central Belt (Scottish Midlands) and were angered in being placed in a prison in North-east Scotland so far away from their friends and family, [2] who had to spend between 6 and 9 hours travelling for visits that were very short and even distressing. [3]
The prisoners were largely city-dwelling Roman Catholics policed by mostly rural-based Protestants. [3]
Discontent was widespread amongst prisoners, especially those with long-term sentences, with one in 1984 commenting of being "in limbo - the living dead." [4] [3]
The Scottish Prison Service located all those who had been involved in riots and hostage-taking at Peterhead in an attempt to stabilise the entire prison estate. The 60 inmates involved were initially held in "lockdown" under prison rule 36 which meant the governor had to visit each one every day. The repairs cost £55 million (equivalent to £132,989,789 in 2022).
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