An extra 4,000 penitentiary areas will most likely be created for the duration of 16 prisons throughout the constructing of contemporary wings and refurbishing jails.
The Ministry of Justice previously provided in October 2020 that four prisons shall be expanded – HMPs Guys Marsh (Dorset), Rye Hill (Warwickshire) and Stocken (Rutland).
As of late’s announcement builds on this, with a total of 16 sites being expanded and refurbished as piece of the flexibility to derive 20,000 extra penitentiary areas by mid-2020s.
Field to planning permission, eight prisons will derive new houseblocks and seven others will most likely be refurbished as piece of a mighty broader £150m funding in refurbishment.
The ministry already has planning for five of the prisons, HMPs Stocken, Guys Marsh, Excessive Down, Birmingham and Liverpool.
Justice secretary Dominic Raab talked about: “Our phenomenal penitentiary-constructing programme is absolutely the most real looking capacity in bigger than a century and will bring an extra 20,000 penitentiary areas by the mid-2020s. We’re bettering our existing penitentiary estate, inserting extra offenders in the abet of bars, practising them for release and preserving the general public.”
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