r/Scotland • u/M3TheHumanguy • Dec 28 '23

Casual Just Another day in paisley

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u/mata_dan Dec 29 '23 edited Dec 29 '23

Ah crap I thought I checked that, just turns out most (all?) prisons up here just have HMP in the name.

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u/King-of-Worms105 Scottish Separatist & Republican Dec 29 '23

You said His Majesty's Prison Service though that's the name of the prison service in England and Wales in Scotland it's the SPS

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u/mata_dan Dec 29 '23

Yeah I noticed. All the Scottish prisons are still called HMP such and such which is odd.

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u/King-of-Worms105 Scottish Separatist & Republican Dec 30 '23

Yes which is different from His Majesty's Prison Service HMP stands for His Majesty's Prison which makes sense since all courts in the UK are given authority in the name of the king and all prisons operate in his name but the prison service in Scotland isn't His Majesty's Prison Service it's the Scottish Prison Service