By C1 Staff
NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia — Corrections officers took hammers, axes and other instruments to the walls of new cells that will be rolled out across NSW’s prisons in August to ensure that they were fully ‘escape-proof.’
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the exercise proved the modular, steel-lined cells were “very secure.”
The cells will be put together by inmates, and will house medium-security inmates. The new cells are cheaper to build, can be moved and will provide retraining and rehabilitation opportunities for inmates.
Each 12-square-meter cell will cost $75,000 to build using prison labor.
The cells are one of many options being considered to help ease the growing population inside NSW facilities.