Shipping containers to help house a growing prison population

Budget constraints led the Government to cancel plans for a new prison. The Government is testing out a six-cell unit made from four shipping containers.

SA Correctional Services Minister thinks he has come up with a cost-effective way to boost cell numbers.

Such cell blocks are used in New Zealand and Germany.

If the trial at Cadell is deemed a success, there are plans to use cells made of containers at at least two other prisons in SA.

They say container cell blocks could even be used to house high-security inmates eventually.

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