HMP Five Wells will welcome it's first inmates in 2022 with window views and a holistic approach to rehabilitation
A new so-called mega-jail could change hundreds of thousands of lives in years to come, an expert in offender behaviour has said.
Described as ‘rooms’, the cells have views over the River Nene, while outside those seeing out their time can make use of four football pitches for exercise, a gardening area and a sloping auditorium.tag because its maximum capacity of 1,680 inmates will make it one of the biggest jails in England.Staff – including a manager of religious affairs – are being recruited, with the final phases expected to be completed by the end of the year.
‘There is a careful balance to be struck as it can’t and should not be a soft option for people who have repeat offending behaviour and have committed serious crimes. She said: ‘One woman from a probation drug and alcohol project spotted me in the street and came running over and told me how she had turned her life around. Karen said she had stopped doing drugs and alcohol and got rid of her partner because he was a negative influence, and she had found a job in a local supermarket. People can do it, they just need the right support along the way.
‘Yet we know that no prison does currently, nor has any prison ever, provide a full day of purpose and activity. The reality is that running costs are often cut back, staffing is reduced and repairs are not done. Nearly 200 years of the history of prisons is hubris and failure.’Mrs Crook said that new prisons and expansions to existing facilities under a £4 billion Government drive to create thousands of new places will simply ‘encourage inflation of the use of prison’.
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