Landlines will replace mobile phone handsets issued to Scottish prisoners during the Covid pandemic.
Landline telephones will be fitted in Scottish jail cells for the first time.
Inmates will be given 200 free minutes per month to call numbers from a pre-approved list. The SPS said they would to help improve mental health and lower the risk of reoffending. She said: "This will help people in custody maintain contact with friends and family, which we know is crucial to their rehabilitative journey.
Teresa Medhurst, chief executive of the SPS, said: "This is an important milestone for the Scottish Prison Service.
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