The Scottish Prisoner Service has given out about 7,500 of the vaping kits.
According to prisoner service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman, the detainees were in fair health and were hospitalized for medical evaluation as part of standing protocol, not as a result of any marked deterioration in their health.
Locally, you deal with the War Prisoners' Service, 315 Lex.
The Scottish Prison Service said prisoners had been in doubled-up cells - particularly at HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow - for decades.
Serco's prisoner escort service to the UK government, where police were called into investigate alleged fraud, has also generated lower revenues than expected.
The endurance of the judiciary, prosecutors and defence lawyers; the capacity of cells and the prisoner escort service; the resourcefulness of court staff; even knowledge of the law: all were tested as never before.
It has prisoner self-service with all the functions prisoners need: their earnings and saving accounts, shopping spending money they have earned and saved, paying for phone calls, arranging their visits, reading notices, faqs, surveys and applications: for jobs, training and so on.
He also partnered with a prisoner hotline service, asking that any calls about theft be forwarded to him.
-- A state audit released Thursday found corrections officials have failed to connect many prisoners with services, monitor rehabilitation programs and keep people away from incarceration.
After the programme aired, the director of the Prisoners' Advice Service (PAS) wrote to Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the Prison and Probation Service, pointing out the unlawfulness of the governor's findings.
