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Anti-drone cages, short corridors and small houses: how better design can solve British prison problems | Alex South

I’ve experienced the degrading conditions in UK prisons – for inmates and staff alike. More humanising buildings yield results

I met Jake in prison. He was a lifer and I was an officer. By the time I began working with him, he’d already served 15 years. Unsurprisingly, his view of prison was different to mine. He saw things I didn’t.

“What do you think it looks like?” Jake asked me.

Alex South is a former prison officer and the author of the memoir Behind These Doors

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