The budget for compensating prisoners forced to slop out in Scottish jails has increased by 70%, it has emerged.
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) now expects to pay out up to £44m and has set aside a contingency liability fund.
Several hundred inmates still have to use chamber pots instead of toilets in Scottish jails.
A high court judge said this amounted to “degrading” treatment in a challenge under human rights law. The action cost the taxpayer almost £1.5m.
The Scottish Executive faces more than 1,000 claims for damages from prisoners and former inmates and the SPS is seeking to reach out of court settlements in similar cases.
The latest figures were revealed in the SPS annual report and accounts for 2004-05.
Armed robber Robert Napier, 25, won £2,450 after he claimed he suffered an outbreak of the skin complaint, eczema, when slopping out at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.
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