SCOTTISH prisoners have been put at risk as decades-old human rights recommendations go unmet, according to a new report published today.

The joint study by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and the UK National Preventative Mechanism (NPM) looked at prisons and mental health settings in Scotland.

A staggering 83 per cent of recommendations first made in the 1990s to meet basic human rights in prisons had yet to be delivered, with little to no progress being made in the last decade, it found.