Polmont Prison

"Stone walls do not a prison make..."

...but they help.

Polmont is a pretty unexceptional suburban town in Central Scotland. If o uspeak to someone who has heard of it, chances are it will be for one of two reasons. Polmont is a station on the main Glasgow - Edinburgh railway line. Polmont is "Scotland's national holding facility for Young Offenders aged between 16 and 21 years of age". In other words, a Prison.

What I find strange about the prison is the way that it is in right the middle of the community. It is adjacent to a couple of housing estates, and is sandwiched between a very new high school and an even newer Tesco.

The prison is behind the wall on the left of this picture. The waterway is the Union Canal, and just to the right of this photograph (but out of shot) is Tesco.

As for the processing, once again it is Nik Software, and felt that the bleak colours and the storm clouds conveyed my concept of what a prison is pretty well...

PS The full quote is "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage". It is from Richard Lovelace's poem "To Althea, From Prison"