![]() They were awarded a contract after the original winner, Interserve, went under. Lendlease is a global property developer and construction company that are the main contractors building the mega-prison HMP Glen Parva in Leicestershire. There are decentralised and autonomous camps across the HS2 route. Kier were awarded £1.4 billion of HS2 projects in 2017 and are part of a group of companies managing the mega-project, which has faced resistance for over a decade. Nearly complete, the prison is set to create cells to imprison more than 1600 people.Ĭorporate Watch previously published a detailed profile about Kier that covered issues such as worker blacklisting, animal laboratory construction, and their role in building the controversial high-speed railway, HS2. Kier is a multinational construction company and the principal contractor behind the new mega-prison in Wellingborough, recently called HMP Five Wells. ![]() It includes companies like G4S that win contracts to run prisons for profit, but also those profiting from continuous construction.Ĭonstructing Wellingborough Prison. The ‘ prison industrial complex’, is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems. Architects and engineers pore over designs of cells and wings, businesses create locks, alarm systems and fences. However, they are also very much real physical constructions, with companies profiting from their creation. Opposition to prisons is often discussed in a conceptual way – organisers and communities contest their validity, explore alternatives and talk about abolition. Read our take on the recent announcement and the status of prison projects so far here. The programme was the topic of Corporate Watch’s Prison Island report about prison expansion in England, Wales and Scotland published in 2018. It includes the construction of new ‘mega-prisons’, with capacity for over 1000 prisoners These prisons are part of the Prison Estates Transformation Programme – the state’s plan to create more than 10,000 prison places, despite the fact that England and Wales already have the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe. ![]() Last summer, the British Government announced plans to build four new prisons as part of ‘Project Speed’ – an attempt to boost the economy by investing billions in construction.
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