Tag: Prisoners

More than 30 babies born in Scottish jails in past five years

Deadline News Journalist - May 28, 2015

MORE than 30 children have been born to female prisoners in Scotland in the past five years. Last year alone, seven inmates gave birth while...

Royalty payments for entertaining prisoners hit £42,000

Peter Laing - September 9, 2012

TAXPAYERS have forked out more than £40,000 in royalty payments over the past two years for prisoners' entertainment. New figures show that music and movies...

Tool hire firm accused of using prisoners as ‘cheap labour’

Christine Lavelle - February 27, 2011

PRISONERS are being used as “cheap labour” to safety-check DIY and construction tools. Inmates at high-security Glenochil Prison in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, are responsible for testing...

Prisoners collect cash to buy brain op girl Zoe a pony

Deadline News Journalist - February 10, 2011

A SCOTS youngster recovering from a brain tumour has received the gift of a pony – from inmates at a Scottish prison. The prisoners from...

Pay rise for prisoners as millions face job uncertainty

Deadline News Journalist - January 2, 2011

THE average wage earned by prisoners has risen by more than seven per cent since the economic crisis began. Prisoners are enjoying the pay rises...

Scots prisoners help to build effigies for Indian festival parade

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Christine Lavelle - October 6, 2010

By Christine Lavelle SOME of Scotland’s hardest prisoners have helped create giant 40ft effigies to be torched to mark a major Hindu...

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