Barlinnie is His Majestys Prison.
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Barlinnie is His Majestys Prison.
She’s going places?
Barlinnie visiting room, allegedly. 🇨🇳
Barlinnie visiting room, allegedly. 🇨🇳
March 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
She’s going places?
Barlinnie visiting room, allegedly. 🇨🇳
Barlinnie visiting room, allegedly. 🇨🇳
>[ACCESSING FILE]<
>HM PRISON BARLINNIE INMATE DATABASE
>NO#: 442
Name: - McClintock, Argyle
Age: - 37
Status: - Released
Location: - C2-B "MAX SEC"
Sentence: - 11y
Offence: - Kidnapping, Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Assault, Property Damage, Public Indecency, Unlawful Digestion of Human Being...
>HM PRISON BARLINNIE INMATE DATABASE
>NO#: 442
Name: - McClintock, Argyle
Age: - 37
Status: - Released
Location: - C2-B "MAX SEC"
Sentence: - 11y
Offence: - Kidnapping, Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Assault, Property Damage, Public Indecency, Unlawful Digestion of Human Being...
July 24, 2026 at 1:43 AM
>[ACCESSING FILE]<
>HM PRISON BARLINNIE INMATE DATABASE
>NO#: 442
Name: - McClintock, Argyle
Age: - 37
Status: - Released
Location: - C2-B "MAX SEC"
Sentence: - 11y
Offence: - Kidnapping, Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Assault, Property Damage, Public Indecency, Unlawful Digestion of Human Being...
>HM PRISON BARLINNIE INMATE DATABASE
>NO#: 442
Name: - McClintock, Argyle
Age: - 37
Status: - Released
Location: - C2-B "MAX SEC"
Sentence: - 11y
Offence: - Kidnapping, Armed Robbery, Intimidation, Assault, Property Damage, Public Indecency, Unlawful Digestion of Human Being...
Very excited to announce a book that’s been a long time in the making, ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Innovation and Punishment’ @watersidepress.bsky.social
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www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin...
The Barlinnie Special Unit - Waterside Press
A definitive retrospective and the first detailed history/analysis of the Barlinnie Special Unit. A supreme record of an ‘iconic’ social experiment.
www.watersidepress.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Very excited to announce a book that’s been a long time in the making, ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Innovation and Punishment’ @watersidepress.bsky.social
www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin...
www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin...
Free at last, free at last!
January 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Free at last, free at last!
For those of you playing along at home, Barlinnie is one of His Majesty's Prisons...
July 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
For those of you playing along at home, Barlinnie is one of His Majesty's Prisons...
In this story from @artukdotorg.bsky.social, Jane Whitaker & artist filmmaker William Beech – contributors to The Barlinnie Special Unit – consider the artwork of the Unit & its impact.
🎨 Read here: https://loom.ly/KopBVwA
#prison #art #therapy #criminaljustice
🎨 Read here: https://loom.ly/KopBVwA
#prison #art #therapy #criminaljustice
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
In this story from @artukdotorg.bsky.social, Jane Whitaker & artist filmmaker William Beech – contributors to The Barlinnie Special Unit – consider the artwork of the Unit & its impact.
🎨 Read here: https://loom.ly/KopBVwA
#prison #art #therapy #criminaljustice
🎨 Read here: https://loom.ly/KopBVwA
#prison #art #therapy #criminaljustice
Barlinnie prison had a similar wing decades ago, specifically for the most dangerous violent and truculent men. It had amazing results. It was closed down.
August 9, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Barlinnie prison had a similar wing decades ago, specifically for the most dangerous violent and truculent men. It had amazing results. It was closed down.
The 1987 rooftop protest at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.
109-hour siege sparked by claims of brutality against an inmate, it became the longest prison rooftop siege in Scottish history.
Pic: Tom Stoddart
109-hour siege sparked by claims of brutality against an inmate, it became the longest prison rooftop siege in Scottish history.
Pic: Tom Stoddart
July 4, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The 1987 rooftop protest at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.
109-hour siege sparked by claims of brutality against an inmate, it became the longest prison rooftop siege in Scottish history.
Pic: Tom Stoddart
109-hour siege sparked by claims of brutality against an inmate, it became the longest prison rooftop siege in Scottish history.
Pic: Tom Stoddart
Glasgow's Barlinnie prison may become A-listed building under new proposals ⬇️
Glasgow's Barlinnie prison may become A-listed building under new proposals
A PUBLIC consultation has been launched on whether to designate HMP Barlinnie as a Category A listed building ...
www.thenational.scot
December 11, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Glasgow's Barlinnie prison may become A-listed building under new proposals ⬇️
There should be a baseline that anyone working in senior leadership or reporting roles at NI papers from about 1998 till the Screws shut should not be fit for any position of public life. Most of them should be in Barlinnie.
September 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
There should be a baseline that anyone working in senior leadership or reporting roles at NI papers from about 1998 till the Screws shut should not be fit for any position of public life. Most of them should be in Barlinnie.
I like seeing my mates but I hate having to come here to see one of them.
February 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I like seeing my mates but I hate having to come here to see one of them.
Off to mass like a massive Feen
Annoyingly the "quick mass priest" is currently in Barlinnie so it's going to be an hour of torture
Annoyingly the "quick mass priest" is currently in Barlinnie so it's going to be an hour of torture
May 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Off to mass like a massive Feen
Annoyingly the "quick mass priest" is currently in Barlinnie so it's going to be an hour of torture
Annoyingly the "quick mass priest" is currently in Barlinnie so it's going to be an hour of torture
4 foot 6 ‘psychic’ escaped from Barlinnie last night. Headline in newspaper is ‘Small Medium at Large’.
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
4 foot 6 ‘psychic’ escaped from Barlinnie last night. Headline in newspaper is ‘Small Medium at Large’.
Most popular guy in Barlinnie.
November 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Most popular guy in Barlinnie.
He's going to lose his mind at the ersatz coffee he'll get in Barlinnie.!!
May 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM
He's going to lose his mind at the ersatz coffee he'll get in Barlinnie.!!
Barlinnie Special Unit in Glasgow - murals cover the walls outside cells. (1981) Pic: Ian Hossack.
October 10, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Barlinnie Special Unit in Glasgow - murals cover the walls outside cells. (1981) Pic: Ian Hossack.
Dartmoor and Barlinnie also worthy of mention.
One area where you absolutely gotta hand it to the Brits is in naming prisons.
Strangeways
Wormwood Scrubs
Wakefield
Thorn Cross
Proper hard names. Irish prisons sound like bottled water brands.
Strangeways
Wormwood Scrubs
Wakefield
Thorn Cross
Proper hard names. Irish prisons sound like bottled water brands.
Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield in Britain.
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Dartmoor and Barlinnie also worthy of mention.
For this price, we could build over 6,000 affordable homes. That’s 4.5 homes per prisoner place. Which choice would make Scotland fairer and safer?
New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn
The replacement HMP Glasgow will open in 2028, three years later than originally planned.
www.bbc.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
For this price, we could build over 6,000 affordable homes. That’s 4.5 homes per prisoner place. Which choice would make Scotland fairer and safer?
New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Barlinnie prison costs double to almost £1bn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Castle Barlinnie would be perfect.
February 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Castle Barlinnie would be perfect.
Good on Barlinnie for having the bottle to pioneer a programme where kids can meet and play with their dads. And good on Broadcasting House for covering it!
December 15, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Good on Barlinnie for having the bottle to pioneer a programme where kids can meet and play with their dads. And good on Broadcasting House for covering it!
Big Dunc - From Barlinnie hell to Goodison heaven - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Duncan Ferguson - From Barlinnie hell to Goodison heaven
BBC Sport Scotland chief sportswriter Tom English speaks to football icon Duncan Ferguson.
www.bbc.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Big Dunc - From Barlinnie hell to Goodison heaven - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison on 11th July 1958; he was the second to last prisoner to die on the Barlinnie gallows.
May 12, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison on 11th July 1958; he was the second to last prisoner to die on the Barlinnie gallows.
On Channel 5 last night, Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle. What next, Inside Barlinnie with John Swinney?
November 29, 2024 at 8:40 AM
On Channel 5 last night, Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle. What next, Inside Barlinnie with John Swinney?
I'll have to confer with my partner Mad Mike MacIntyre, of no affixed abode, formerly of HMP Barlinnie and Easterhouse
August 30, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I'll have to confer with my partner Mad Mike MacIntyre, of no affixed abode, formerly of HMP Barlinnie and Easterhouse