Prisoners in shipping containers

[awayatc]

Why spend that much on converting shipping containers?
Stick in prisoner.....
close door...

It's a shipping container for christ sake....
Ship em back to where they came from!

If not send ship to Somalia.....
Just don't pay the ransom...
There you go : solved 2 problems in one hit and the day hasn't even properly started yet

[davereid]

The paper was quoting a figure of $300,000 + to covert a shipping container to a cell or $600,000 + to build a "real" cell.

Either price is madness.

While I am not a builder, I can add. A cubic metre of concrete is still under $200, so I simply can't see how a cell can cost more than $10k, even with under floor heating.

Some-one is getting very very rich here, - perhaps the real criminals are lurking in the governments procurement departments !

[Indiana_Jones]

Also forget to put airholes in the containers

-Indy

[BOGAR]

The container would be reusable after a week or 2 as well. Just needs a quick clean (or not).

[scracha]

The paper was quoting a figure of $300,000 + to covert a shipping container to a cell or $600,000 + to build a "real" cell.

Either price is madness.

Yep. We were looking at them at the field days. Nice ones with insulation, panels, doors, en suite, air con, plugs etc come in well under 20 grand.

There's plenty hard working young folks oot there who're living in converted containers, cabins and draughty fucked old houses so quite why housing prisoners in $300,000 (must be insulated with gold) shipping containers is being called "inhumane" is a mystery to me.

[awayatc]

Also forget to put airholes in the containers

-Indy

Spelling misstake Indy....

Arseholes........
Not airholes

[MisterD]

The paper was quoting a figure of $300,000 + to covert a shipping container to a cell or $600,000 + to build a "real" cell.

Probably the price per cell once you've built all the security fences, towers, cell phone blockers etc etc around them as well.

[Winston001]

Probably the price per cell once you've built all the security fences, towers, cell phone blockers etc etc around them as well.

Yeah there has to be a lot more to it than just the container.

I'd envisage a few rows of insulated (ex-refrigerated) containers, probably on piles, connected to electricity, water/waste/storm drains with concrete paths in between. Situated on the grounds of a prison within the security fencing. All of that costs but hell, not $300,000 each.

[Finn]

The paper was quoting a figure of $300,000 + to covert a shipping container to a cell or $600,000 + to build a "real" cell.

Yet another case of only in NZ. Hence why nothing of any significance EVER happens in this goddamn country.

[Winston001]

There is a proposed development in Queenstown doing exactly this. http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queen...ain-travellers

[Ixion]

I'm not up with this. How many prisoners per container? I'm not sure this would end up very economical compared with a basic "prison camp" type building. What sort of prisoners are we expecting the numbers of to increase ? Real bad , escape if given half a chance buggers? Or , just want to serve their time without aggro and get out losers? The latter wouldn't seem to need very expensive accommodation? And do wer really have too many of the former to fit into Pare?

[steve_t]

Don't forget the prisoners' need for underfloor heating... as per these new prisons being built

[Winston001]

There isn't a shortage of cells at the moment but projections forward suggest there will be.

Also an objective of rehabilitative imprisonment is to situate prisoners as close to their family as possible. Thus empty cells in the South Island are not considered a viable option for Auckland convicts.

[Beemer]

... send ship to Somalia.....
Just don't pay the ransom...
There you go : solved 2 problems in one hit and the day hasn't even properly started yet

Best idea I've read yet! Brilliant!

[cambridgedan]

i guess 300K + would be ok if you can get 300+ prisoners in one container, why dont they buy a bit of land, (open flat with no hills near or places to hide like trees etc) and build a fence around the paddocks and give them some tarpaulin etc to build them selfs a bivouac