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Gayle checks in to Peterhead Prison – widely known as ‘The Hate Factory’ and now open as a museum.
The bleak, granite fortress of Peterhead Prison looms large on an exposed, wind-battered headland above the town’s harbour.
It’s a grim, foreboding, shiver-down-the-spine-inducing sight: you can see why it was dubbed Scotland’s “gulag” – a prison of no hope.
Built in 1888, the north-east jail was home to some of Scotland’s most notorious criminals, including sex offenders and murderers, over its 125-year history.