Prisoners at a Lancashire institution have become the first to build eco-friendly lights in-house, which will be used to cut energy use across prisons.
Offenders at HMP Garth Prison near Leyland are assembling LED lights which use 62% less electricity and are expected to save around £2.5m a year once rolled out across the prison estate.
The development follows an announcement in In May that the government’s four new prisons will operate as zero-carbon, with an all-electric design, solar panels, heat pumps and more efficient lighting systems to significantly reduce energy demand.
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