Prisons To Be Sold For Housing

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. "So many of our jails are relics from Victorian times on prime real estate in our inner cities". The sites will allow more than 3,000 new homes to be built, with the Victorian prison site at Reading the first to be sold, Mr Osborne and Mr Gove said. Read more on the Daily Telegraph website.