Low Moss Prison

Tel: 0141 762 9500 – 190 Crosshill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G64 2QB

HMP Low Moss has a capacity of 784 and is designed to hold male inmates serving both short-term and long-term sentences, in addition to those serving a life-sentence or on remand. It mainly only accepts prisoners from the North Strathclyde Community Justice Authority area. The prison opened in 2012, though the original prison was opened in 1968, closing in 2007. If you’d like to find out how to get to HMP Low Moss, please use the map on this page.

Tel: 0141 762 9500

Operational capacity: 700

190 Crosshill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G64 2QB

Calls from the payphones at HMP Low Moss can be quite expensive, 40p per minute in fact!

However Prison Phone have been reducing the cost of the same calls to just 10p per minute since 2013. Our service helps inmates within Low Moss prison to stretch their PINS phone credits further meaning you don’t send in so much for them to by PINS phone credit!

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Here’s some facts about Low Moss Prison

HMP Low Moss is a low-security prison on the outskirts of Bishopbridge Dunbartonshire; near Glasgow. Opened in 1968, the prison has a capacity to hold 784 inmates.

The original establishment was closed in 2007, and redeveloped. Construction began in 2010, ready to be finished and reopened in early 2012. The capacity would be twice the old figure, and the prison was expanded by three times in size.

Thief Paul Matthews Cowan, described as a prisoner at HMP Low Moss was found to have stole two cars, including a £40,000 BMW and a Ford Fiesta valued at £6,000. He was also found to have stolen Christmas presents from a van.

There is not a report for HMP Low Moss on the HMIPS website.

Visiting hours are complex. For more information, click here, and view the right side of the page. Visits are Monday to Sunday every week without children.