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GSL designs, builds, manages and finances prisons in the UK, South Africa and Australia. Its role involves far more than managing the prison regime and security. Training of prisoners plays a vital role and the prime objective is to stop re-offending by teaching them skills that will help their reintegration into society.

UK

GSL pioneered in the UK the theory that contracting out the management of prisons to the private sector could bring additional value, expertise and ideas to the state sector Prison Service. HMP Wolds which opened in 1992 was the first contract for a privately managed prison in England.

GSL also operates two PFI prison contracts on behalf of Her Majesty's Prison Service in the UK HMP Altcourse in Liverpool and HMP Rye Hill on the Warwickshire/Northamptonshire border.

HMP Rye Hill HMP Rye Hill  HMP Wolds

 

South Africa

 

GSL Solutions (South Africa)(Pty) Ltd has at its core a passion to service excellence, and committed employees are focused on caring for the people entrusted to their care. GSL’s developmental approach to those entrusted to our care is underpinned by our commitment to support the South African Government’s drive to rectify the imbalances of the past through active programmes aimed at community outreach and people empowerment.

GSL is currently operating the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein which is a high security prison that cares for 3,000 inmates on a day-to-day basis. The prison was built as the first PFI/PPP prison in South Africa and will be managed by GSL for a contract period of 25 years.

 

Australia

 

Mount Gambier Prison was South Australia’s first privately operated prison. It houses 110 remand and sentenced prisoners from all over the state. Most are male although occasionally it holds local female prisoners for short periods. Prisoners are held in a variety of accommodation configurations ranging from 27-bed cell blocks to two-bed self-contained cottages.

 

 

 

Located at North Laverton in Melbourne, Port Phillip Prison is a maximum security facility for male remand and sentenced prisoners with a design capacity of 634 beds. Approximately half the population are remandees and the prison has a high turnover rate – typically 24,000 movements a year – making it a complex facility to operate.

Prisoners with different needs are housed in 13 self-contained accommodation units and the prison includes a 35-bed psycho-social unit for prisoners with intellectual disabilities and a youth unit housing 60 young offenders aged 17-25 which allows them to be separated from older prisoners. Rehabilitation and personal development programmes are available for all prisoners.

www.gslpl.com.au

 

Prisoner activities

The philosophy of our prisons is to teach prisoners a work ethic and motivate them to work in an industrial environment. They are encouraged to be self-reliant and part of a team, and are trained to meet the necessary standards, output and quality demanded by the contracts including health and safety and quality control monitoring.

Prisoners participate in a full working week undertaking a wide range of industrial activities receiving training appropriate to their duties. Examples of activities operated and managed at our prisons are:

 



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