Prisoners launch multi-million pound claim over slopping out

Sixty remand prisoners in one of Scotland’s toughest jails
are making a making a multi-million pound compensation claim using Article
Three of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The prisoners at Barlinnie jail in Glasgow are claiming
compensation of £5,000 each and an immediate transfer to another prison because
they say that slopping out subjects them to inhuman and degrading treatment.

The move follows a successful case by Robert Napier who
won his claim against unsanitary conditions in the prison in July.

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The Scottish Prison Service say that if the prisoners are
successful in their claims it could cost as much as £100m to upgrade facilities
across all of Scotland’s prisons and they are appealing against Napier’s Court
of Session judgement later in the year as well a contesting these new claims.

By Colin Wright