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GFSL scores a double win across service delivery and customer accolades
HMP Ford installs new pod accommodation in record time and HMP High Down receives accolade from Governor.
From:
7 May 2021
Spread out over acres of open fields, Ford prison has an operational capacity of 544. However, during the pandemic, this came under pressure to enable new prisoners to self-isolate.
To meet demand, GFSL’s site team swiftly demolished 8 billets to make way for new British-made units, or ‘pods’.
A team expertly winched a total of 80 pods weighing 2.5 tonnes each into place on a newly levelled field at Ford. They will shortly re-house 120 prisoners alongside the existing accommodations, comprising a brick-built block with 274 single rooms and two brick built billets.