In 2014, it was closed in favour of the new HMP Grampian and the site was redeveloped as a housing estate.

In August 2007 Aberdeen Prison was chosen to pilot a new initiative called the Substance Related Offending Behaviour Program (SROBP) piloted by Officers Graeme Robson and Allan Dewar which looked at prisoners finding the relationship between their substance use and their offending behaviour.

Aberdeen Prison was also recognised for its investment in in-house Bereavement Counseling services facilitated by Graeme Robson and Wayne Lawson.

Initially identified was Graeme Robson who is now a Residential Compliance Manager.

Henry John Burnett, the last man to be executed in Scotland, was hanged inside the prison on 15 August 1963.