One hundred cells in a Scottish high- security jail are being fitted with bunk beds in a desperate move to try to cope with overcrowding.
As the number of prisoners broke through the 8,300 mark this week, just 200 shy of the government’s emergency limit, it emerged that inmates will have to go two-up in cells designed for one at Low Moss prison in Glasgow.
The move has been branded a sticking-plaster solution, with opposition politicians accusing the SNP government of mismanaging the country’s jails.
Phil Fairlie, head of the Prison Officers Association Scotland, said a refit of cells at Low Moss was almost complete but warned that the “temperature is rising” across the country, with violence and drug abuse escalating.
At Perth, he said,