Addiewell in West Lothian opens next month, while plans are in hand for new jails at Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, and Bishopbriggs, in East Dunbartonshire.
BBC: Jail service 'should be split up'
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Labour MSP Graeme Pearson, a former director general of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, asked Mr McConnell if a 01:00 television curfew in operation at Low Moss Prison in Bishopbriggs should be extended to all prisoners.
BBC: A television in a cell at Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow