Sweden’s Skanska has won a project management contract for a $312m, 420-bed women’s prison in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey. Skanska Integrated Solutions (SIS) is providing owner’s representative services to assist…

A joint venture between US contractors Tutor Perini and O&G has won a $3.8bn deal to build a prison in Manhattan for New York City’s Department of Design and Construction…

Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the US navy’s Guantánamo Bay base in Cuba. The intention is to use it as a…

American contractor Tutor Perini has won a $49m deal from the US National Park Service to improve structural deficiencies at Alcatraz’s main building. The prison-turned-tourist-attraction is located on an island…

Swedish builder Peab has been commissioned to build a €44m prison in the Swedish city of Borås. It’s part of a new judicial complex comprising a new police station and…

Ecuador has begun work on a $52m prison for people convicted of belonging to drug cartels. The move follows a decision by Ecuador’s new president Daniel Noboa, elected in November,…

Balfour Beatty’s US arm has won a $320m deal to deliver a 3,000-person prison in the US state of Georgia. The prison will contain housing, administration, general and vocational education…

US contractor Tutor Perini has won a $3bn design-and-build contract for a prison in Brooklyn, awarded by New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC). Tutor Perini beat a…