Article: KILLERS QUEUE FOR A Wii TM; EXCLUSIVE GAMES AND SETANTA FOR MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINALS We shell out pounds 20,000 for Nintendo consoles and satellite TV for Carstairs.(News)

Article: 'Carstairs is like a gulag. There is an overwhelming need to develop it'
Scotland on Sunday;  June 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......horrendous' about Carstairs it is the conditions her 240 patients are living in...taking the post at Carstairs she was director...facilities for patients, her involvement...will be cut to 100 patients with more being...women. Currently at Carstairs only the most violent ...

Article: KID RAPIST MOVED OUT OF CARSTAIRS; EXCLUSIVE Fears over beast in less-secure unit.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  May 26, 2008 ;     661 words ......difficulties. The policy of moving Carstairs patients has alarmed some MSPs, who...in February that up to 100 Carstairs patients were set to be transferred...partly prompted by fears that Carstairs patients could sue the authorities under...

Article: Increasing risk from patients at Carstairs
Evening Times;  May 17, 2002 ;     297 words ...PATIENTS who arrive at the State Hospital in Carstairs are more dangerous than...far higher proportion of patients in Carstairs than average. The city...high security unit like Carstairs. Instead, he warned: "Some patients will need high security...

Article: Patients trapped inside Carstairs
The Scotsman;  August 7, 2002 ;     628 words ......Scotsman that one in six of Carstairs' 240 patients are ready for immediate...continuing level of care for patients from Carstairs downwards. At present...seriously mentally ill patients in Scotland are treated at Carstairs while others are housed...

Article: ONLY PLACE FOR THESE SAVAGES IS CARSTAIRS; EXCLUSIVE KNIFE ATTACKERS PREPARED FOR THEIR RELEASE But they'll now live next to a school.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  March 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......spell in Carstairs when he carried...like and patients are allowed...Rights allowed Carstairs patients to challenge...to be in Carstairs. Carstairs, which has 240 patients, describes...setting . A Carstairs spokeswoman...

Article: 50 mental patients are trapped in Carstairs
The Scotsman;  December 19, 2000 ;     560 words ......patient has been in Carstairs for more than...discharged, two patients for three years...overcrowding at Carstairs, which has a...present, it has 246 patients and has had to...the entrapped patients have come to Carstairs through the court...

Article: Carstairs patients set for transfer to Capital
Evening News - Scotland;  September 20, 1999 ;     674 words ......year. And public concern over Carstairs patients was heightened by the controversial...figures showed that 30 or 40 Carstairs patients do not need to be treated at...already receive four or five Carstairs patients a year. "We have got no plans...

Article: MSP WARNS THAT RUDDLE LAW WILL HIT CARSTAIRS
Evening News - Scotland;  September 7, 1999 ;     308 words ......in the number of patients held at Carstairs, an MSP warned...prison to being in Carstairs. "It is seen by...more expensive as patients cost more to keep...they will be." Patients cost about GBP...year to treat at Carstairs. The bill could...hospital if more patients are ...

Article: CARSTAIRS READY TO ERUPT CARSTAIRS IS READY TO ERUPT; Psycho killer backlash fear.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  August 6, 1999 ;     632 words ......hostility among some patients since killer Ruddle...into violence. Carstairs houses some of...there are the patients, like Michael Wilkinson...getting out of Carstairs knocked back by...string of other patients who are about to...explosive recipe. The patients in Carstairs are ...

Article: Scandal of 41 patients stuck in Carstairs
The Scotsman;  October 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ......man is among 41 patients who no longer...security hospital in Carstairs. Eighteen have...reviewed group of patients in the country...have to expand Carstairs at a time when...thirds of the patients in Carstairs come through the...

Article: Tories raise alarm at Carstairs transfers.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 6, 2007 ;     455 words ......legality of the move. The patients are being moved from the State Hospital at Carstairs, Lanarkshire, after new...out of 32 appeals made by patients to the Mental Health Tribunal...contemplating the removal of patients from Carstairs.' One of the high-risk patients is Michael ...

Article: Lack of beds keeps people in Carstairs
The Scotsman;  January 16, 2002 ;     508 words ......parents of one of the patients, Darren Crichton, 20, who is still at Carstairs two years after...medical director of Carstairs, revealed that 33 patients at Carstairs were in a similar...The expression 'Carstairs patients' in my opinion...

Article: WHY HAVE I BEEN LEFT TO ROT IN CARSTAIRS; Patient stuck inside.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 19, 2002 ;     358 words ......and that of other Carstairs patients whose discharge...people were in Carstairs because there is...Connaughton admitted 33 patients were being held...want to see him in Carstairs on his 21st birthday...the detention of patients who no longer require...

Article: Concern at plans to downsize Carstairs HEALTH: LEGISLATION Many patients to move to lower security facilities
The Sunday Herald;  August 6, 2006 ;     439 words ......number of beds at Carstairs hospital is to...as dozens of patients are moved to...160-70. For female patients, 21 high-security beds at Carstairs will be replaced...concerns about patients becoming "entrapped" in Carstairs, welcomed the...