{"id":32774,"date":"2025-10-14T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-lands-250m-double-prison-expansion-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:26:11","slug":"kier-lands-250m-double-prison-expansion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-lands-250m-double-prison-expansion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier lands \u00a3250m double prison expansion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-502406\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"495\">Each site will get four new houseblocks, new site-wide infrastructure and upgrades to ancillary facilities, with completion due by early 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"695\">The latest wins take Kier\u2019s total to 30 houseblocks delivered for the MoJ and Scottish Prison Service in recent years, cementing its position as one of the UK\u2019s leading justice sector contractors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"933\">Kier has already delivered HMP Five Wells and HMP Millsike, and is currently expanding HMPs Elmley, Bullingdon and Channings Wood under the government\u2019s \u00a314bn prison capacity plan to create 14,000 new places by 2031.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1612\">Kier\u2019s Making Ground scheme continues to deliver real outcomes, with 29 prisoners at HMP Channings Wood recently graduating from its \u2018Hard Hat Ready\u2019 training course.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1612\">Over the past three years, 75 prison leavers have secured jobs and 64 temporary licence placements have been created through the initiative.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Morby\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/10\/15\/kier-lands-250m-double-prison-expansion-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Each site will get four new houseblocks, new site-wide infrastructure and upgrades to ancillary facilities, with completion due by &#8230; <a title=\"Kier lands \u00a3250m double prison expansion deal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-lands-250m-double-prison-expansion-deal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kier lands \u00a3250m double prison expansion deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}