The increasing number of mass-produced laws is creating a need for a vast prison-building programme.
Architects' drawings for the new HMP Paterson (named after the early 20th-Century prison reformer) depict a prison for the future with no locks, manicured gardens, non-stop sports field, track, stadium, indoor sports, and leisure amenities to restore outmates' self-respect and remain non-recidivists.
The drawings include tower blocks with similar exterior cladding to Frank Gehry's twin towers' mini-town on Hove's seashore.
With a perimeter of high-rise prison-style tenement blocks and a central sports compound, might one think the Gehry King Alfred development could well become a future central prison for Sussex?
Architects could easily add a pier for prison ships so outmates could go on cruises and relatives visit from abroad. John Stanaway
-Lorna Road, Hove
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