£250m super prison to create 1,000 jobs in north Wales

[vetran]

Indeed.

The majority who is in open/remand prison mixing with armed robbers, mass murderers and tax avoiders during lunch hour - what can go wrong? This should cut down reoffending rates among certain category of prisoners even if at expense of more crime inside prison

The Kitchen is shared, not the Dining room.

[AtW]

The Kitchen is shared, not the Dining room.

What about library, education and laundry?

[vetran]

What about library, education and laundry?

different time slots?

trolley based library as seen on tv?

Classroom in secure area in Prison but shared staff & resources

secure prisoners get their washing delivered?

key thing is you can have 5 teachers covering 2000 people rather than 1 teacher struggling to cover 200 in a normal prison.

[AtW]

key thing is you can have 5 teachers covering 2000 people rather than 1 teacher struggling to cover 200 in a normal prison.

What's the current teacher conviction rate?

[vetran]

What's the current teacher conviction rate?

pretty good for abduction thankfully.

[AtW]

pretty good for abduction thankfully.

I mean %-tage of teachers among prisoners.

Offer them a few years off the term if they teach well and things will look up.

[doodab]

Offer them a few years off the term if they teach well and things will look up.

They already get loads of holidays.

[AtW]

They already get loads of holidays.

Even convicted teachers?

A more creative (and cheaper to taxpayer) management of prisons is well overdue - guards could be tough cons who'd have much nicer time if they obey some simple rules during their guard duty.

External perimeter - fully automated gun turrets.

[vetran]

I mean %-tage of teachers among prisoners.

Offer them a few years off the term if they teach well and things will look up.

They already do this via the trustee system, Lord Archer ran lessons in some of the prisons he attended.

This is interesting:

Top 10 Most Notorious Prisons In The U.S. | Breaking News for Black America

Rikers = 14,000 on remand or < 1 year sentence, 8,000 officers