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HMP & YOI Stirling
Closed female + YOIMediumfemaleLowMedium
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit HMP & YOI Stirling
Step-by-step guidance using the United Kingdom system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Scotland's new national women's prison. Designed with a rehabilitative trauma-informed model.
Capacity
80
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
2023
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 21 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Scottish Prison ServicePopulation held
female
Opened
2023
Region
Scotland
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
HMI Prisons publishes independent inspection reports on roughly a 3-5 year cycle.
Visiting
Booked online via the GOV.UK Prison Visits Booking system. Photo ID required. Visit frequency depends on the inmate's Incentives & Earned Privileges (IEP) level.
Mailing
Format: Prisoner Name & Number, HMP & YOI Stirling, Cornton Road, FK9 5NU. Cash not accepted — use Send Money to a Prisoner (GOV.UK).
Practical info
Assisted Prison Visits Unit helps low-income families with travel costs. Pact runs many of the on-site visitor centres.
Known issues
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 584 scored United Kingdom facilities is 4 — 4 points below national average.
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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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Compared to other facilities in United Kingdom
583 peersConditions risk scorethis: 0/100 · peers avg: 4/100 (100%)
Higher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United Kingdom.
Capacity (beds)this: 80 · peers avg: 580 (86%)
Data completeness
94%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- GOV.UK â HMP & YOI Stirling
- HMI Prisons inspection reports
- Find a prison â GOV.UK — UK Ministry of Justice / HMPPS
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons â reports — HMI Prisons (UK)
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q124735308)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). HMP & YOI Stirling. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hmp-yoi-stirling
Chicago
"HMP & YOI Stirling." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hmp-yoi-stirling.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hmp-yoi-stirling,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {HMP & YOI Stirling},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hmp-yoi-stirling},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}