Scots prisoners are having their mobile phones taken away as jail chiefs move to install landlines in every cell
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The mobile scheme handed thousands of devices to prisoners in 2020, with limited call minutes and text and internet usage blocked on the prison-approved numbers. But illicit sim cards allowed prisoners to bypass these restrictions. Meanwhile, warder Heather McKenzie, 31, was jailed for more than six years in February this year for smuggling cocaine and a sim to murderer Zak Malavin, 30, in HMP Shotts.
Scottish Tory justice spokesman Russell Findlay said: “The SNP government’s free and supposedly tamper-proof mobile phones for prisoners were quickly hacked and used to commit crimes including drug deals and the fire-bombing of family homes.
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