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Isabel Hight has spent over 35 years advising on prison development and management in East Timor, Liberia, Sudan, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Congo for organisations like the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The G4S-run HMP Oakwood was praised last year by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, as a model for future prison development for its cost-per-prison place of £13,200, less than half the national average.
The site, best known as Ferodo and later as Dynamex, was "not suitable for prison development", she said.
"The actual size of this new prison development will dwarf not only the existing Category A prison, but will dwarf the village". Another protester, 70-year-old Colin Clarke, who has lived in the area for more 20 years, said of the proposed jail: "Structurally, it's going to spoil the village.
But seldom does prison development become the economic engine cities hope for when approving them.
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