AN INSPECTION of Low Moss Prison has highlighted the “insidious consequences of overcrowding” in Scotland’s jails, according to a new report.His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) visited the prison on the outskirts of Bishopbriggs, which opened in 2012 with a capacity to hold 784 prisoners but now holds 835 after 100 extra places were created by “overcrowding cells.”

AN INSPECTION of Low Moss Prison has highlighted the “insidious consequences of overcrowding” in Scotland’s jails, according to a new report.

His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) visited the prison on the outskirts of Bishopbriggs, which opened in 2012 with a capacity to hold 784 prisoners but now holds 835 after 100 extra places were created by “overcrowding cells.”

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