Prisoners are converting to Judaism as part of concerted efforts to receive better quality meals after they were inspired by a Netflix show, a report has claimed.

Inspectors who visited HMP Edinburgh ordered an 'urgent investigation' after almost £1 million was spent serving specially prepared kosher meals to more than 100 prisoners in 2017.

In 2014, only nine inmates at all Scottish jails were registered as Jewish. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) launched a crackdown after the apparent scam spread to other prisons across the country.

It followed a plotline in a 2015 episode of prison saga Orange is the New Black where Cindy, played by Adrienne C Moore, converts to Judaism to get "better quality food" and sees her swap out pork for Kosher chicken.

70 of her 200 fellow inmates follow suit in a revolt against the new cheap food being shipped into the prison.