Nine New Jails To Be Built - November 2015

Plans to build nine new prisons have been unveiled by the Government. The new prisons will allow old Victorian prisons in city centres to be closed and the sites sold for housing, Chancellor George Osborne and Justice Secretary Michael Gove said ahead of a visit to Brixton prison in south London.

Mr Gove said: "This investment will mean we can replace ageing and ineffective Victorian prisons with new facilities fit for the modern world."We will be able to design out the dark corners which too often facilitate violence and drug-taking.”