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Further delay to completion of £209m HMP Highland

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The Scottish government says there has been a further delay to the planned completion of a new prison in Inverness.

Justice Secretary Neil Gray told Holyrood that HMP Highland was now due to be finished in spring 2027 because of construction issues.

The £209m jail was to completed later this year, though the original timescale was for it to be open in 2020.

The prison will have capacity for 200 inmates from the Highlands and Islands.


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