Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said the site, which has space for 1,600 inmates and is England's largest jail, is meant to be the blueprint for future prisons.
Obama, who last month presented Congress with a blueprint for closing the prison, is seeking to make good on his longtime pledge before he leaves office in January.
His report was regarded as a blueprint for a safe and decent prison system and, for a while, there was an air of optimism in penal circles as his measures were put into place.
The president plans to send Congress a blueprint for fulfilling his campaign pledge to close the U.S. prison in Cuba.
The quintet's leading light is Riad Seif, a popular, secular-minded Sunni businessman and former MP who, while still in prison, co-signed the "Damascus declaration", a blueprint for reform and freedom issued last October.
In December, he began working with Pete Fischer, the coach who developed the blueprint for Pete Sampras's legendary career, and the doctor who left prison in May 2001 after serving three years for child molestation.
In 2007, the Howard League for Penal Reform set up the Commission on English Prisons Today to investigate the crisis in our prisons and to come up with a blueprint for a penal system fit for the 21st century.
Mr. Hayes's lawyers suggested that prison librarians might have given him what amounted to a literary blueprint for the crime, which already has what some see as a literary predecessor of sorts.
A new commission for women, with a sensible blueprint for reform across government departments, could replace the outdated, discredited model of large prisons with a network of small units and effective local services.
Let us dream and conjure, collectively, Black queer futures without prisons and police, without gender-based violence, and let those imaginings be the blueprint for freedom.
