Bryden Wood has suggested that its under-construction HMP Wellingborough jail in Northamptonshire could be a blueprint for prime minister Boris Johnson’s just-announced expansion of prison places.

Over the weekend Johnson said he was backing the spending of an additional £2.5bn to deliver 10,000 additional prison places and underpin a new era of tougher sentencing in a bid to take more dangerous offenders off the streets and rehabilitate them.

Bryden Wood said HMP Wellingborough, which is due to open in 2021 and is part of a £1.2bn Ministry of Justice programme, would maximise the rehabilitation of its inmates and seek to “break the cycle of reoffending”.

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