Glasgow prisoners to receive landlines in new £8.5m scheme

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Landline phones will be installed in prison cells, including Barlinnie and Low Moss, for the first time, the Scottish Prison Service has confirmed.and well-being as well as reduce the risk of reoffending.Maintaining contact with friends and family, particularly children is crucial to prisoners and their loved ones, the prison service said.

“Criminals exploited those free mobiles to carry out firebombings and drug deals, so the SNP must explain what robust measures are in place to stop prisoner phones from being misused again. SPS say the hard-wired, in-cell telephones will be subject to robust security which means inmates will only be able to call numbers from a pre-approved list.

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