Jail screens off flashers

PRISON chiefs at Saughton have reportedly been forced to erect a screen wall around the exercise yard, over concerns that new female inmates were flashing their breasts at male prisoners.

A 20ft security fence has been covered with tarpaulin this week after male inmates began hanging out of the windows of their cells to look at the female prisoners in the yard.

In June the Evening News revealed that around 115 female inmates would be moved to Saughton from Cornton Vale to ease overcrowding.

The sexes are kept separate, and changes have been made to the prison, including the addition of flowers and bird boxes in the exercise yard.

A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: "The fence has been changed due to operational reasons."