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Article: 'Carstairs is like a gulag. There is an overwhelming need to develop it'
- Article from:
- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- June 13, 2004
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ITS NAME has unique power to conjure up diabolical images of
psychopaths and their unspeakable deeds. Carstairs - the State
Hospital - is probably the nation's most feared and least understood
institution.
Hidden away to all but train passengers on a remote and windswept
south Lanarkshire moor, Carstairs is seen as the place where deranged
murderers, rapists and child killers judged too dangerous for a
'normal' high-security prison are kept sedated and locked away behind
a razor-wire fence.
Even those who dare visit are stripped of their mobile phones amid
airport-style security.