A LOOPHOLE that enables prisoners who "
slop out" to sue the government was closed by MSPs last night.
The figure was revealed yesterday as prison chiefs announced plans to make cash offers to up to 300 prisoners who had to
slop out in shared cells.
The Court of Session ruled armed robber Robert Napier's human rights had been breached because he was forced to
slop out in Barlinnie.
Last month, the airgun killer of a two-year-old boy demanded pounds 93,000 for being forced to
slop out.
THE mother of a murdered teenager has slammed the decision to pay pounds 44million compensation to cons forced to
slop out.
PRISONERS forced to
slop out while in jail are to be offered one-off compensation payments of pounds 7000.
Last month, the callous airgun killer of a two-year-old boy demanded pounds 93,000 compensation for being forced to
slop out.
The SPS set aside the cash after a court awarded prisoner Robert Napier pounds 2,400 in April for having to
slop out at Glasgow's Barlinnie jail.
Ministers blamed an 'administrative error' for the blunder, which means it is too late to appeal against the decision that prisoners forced to
slop out are eligible to claim compensation.
Taxpayers are facing a pounds 58million bill to compensate prisoners forced to
slop out in Scots jails.
They are among 800 inmates who claim they have been "traumatised and damaged" by being forced to
slop out - collecting and dumping their own waste because there are no flush toilets in their cells.
DOESN'T it just make your heart bleed to think of that poor, degraded con who felt so ashamed at having to
slop out in Barlinnie that he sued the Scottish Executive?
What about the nurses who have to
slop out as part of their job?
MORE than 700 prisoners who are forced to
slop out their cells have started legal proceedings against the Department of Justice.
SCOTTISH Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan demanded he be allowed to "
slop out" like other prisoners in Barlinnie last week.