Wates has begun work on a £300m scheme to expand HMPHighpoint in ... The scheme at Highpoint is part of the government’s prison building expansion programme.
One Highpoint prisoner said ... get out.” A report by the prisons watchdog last year found that too few Highpoint prisoners were attending purposeful activity or receiving adequate education or training.
Highpoint currently holds just under 1,300 prisoners. The MoJ said that on completion, "Highpoint will be the largest prison in terms of land size in North-West Europe and the largest in the UK based on prisoner population".