Documents show £6million of pre-made cells have had to be abandoned across low-security prisons due to the financial collapse of a contractor
A Whitehall insider said the project was abandoned after the initial supplier had ceased trading, as it was deemed uneconomical to hand production over to a different supplier.Due to the aborted plans, the Ministry of Justice is no longer set to use the modern cells as a method of quickly building prison capacity at Category D prisons, the lowest security option within the prison estate.
The prison blocks were being built as part of Boris Johnson’s 2019 pledge to expand the Prison estate by 10,000 places, following concerns around over-crowding. This was in addition to the 10,000 pledged by Theresa May. Last month, the national Audit Office office said there would be a shortage of 12,4000 prison space by 2027. The
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