A judge has praised three prison officers who rescued a woman warder taken hostage by convicted killers.
Patrick Kelly, 41, Duncan McTaggart, 26 and David Miller, 24, barricaded themselves in an office with Linda Conner and wielded metal chair legs.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Turnbull jailed them for 45 months each after the incident at Glenochil Prison.
He said: “The action of the prison officers was commendable and deserves public recognition.”
The incident happened when the three prisoners, who had all been transferred to Glenochil, near Tullibody in Clackmannanshire, were protesting about poor conditions.
The prison officers – Philip Thomas, Michael Swords and William Riddell – were attacked with metal chair legs and a fire extinguisher as they forced their way in and overpowered the men.
The inmates were moved to different prisons after the incident in December 2005.
They admitted abducting Ms Conner from an office in the segregation wing and repeatedly striking the officers.
Kelly, who was convicted of murder in February 1984, had been moved from Greenock Prison just weeks before.
McTaggart, convicted of culpable homicide in September 2003 and Miller, who was convicted of murder in June 1997 when he was 14, had been transferred from Dumfries Prison.