Plans for extra 4,000 places at 16 prisons across the country
PLANS to create 4,000 extra places at 16 prisons are going ahead as part of a commitment to increase jail capacity by 20,000 over three years.
Subject to planning permission, the proposals involve adding wings and refurbishing old prison spaces, the Ministry of Justice says.
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Expansion will go ahead at Norwich, Liverpool, Birmingham, Haverigg and young offender sites at Feltham, Aylesbury and Swinfen Hall.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said: "Our prison-building programme will deliver an extra 20,000 prison places by the mid-2020s to punish offenders, deter crime and protect the public."
Also "prison design, in-cell technology, drug rehabilitation" will help cut reoffending.
