 A high number of suicides have taken place there.Eleven women killed themselves while serving sentences at Corton Vale between 1997 and 2002.In 2010, Brigadier Hugh Munro (the Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland) declared the prison in a "state of crisis", citing overcrowding, two-hour waits for the toilet, cold meals, lack of activities and a deep problem of prisoner boredom which was impeding rehabilitation.