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UK “super prisons” could see second life as 3,000-guest luxury hotels

Sally Shalam

Photo Credit: The main entrance to the men's prison Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.  Flickr / Brian Snelson

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The growing trend of turning prisons into boutique hotels exemplifies consumers’ desire for authentic or unique experiences as well as hoteliers’ appetite for differentiating themselves by pushing design boundaries.

British boutique hotels could be about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. Yesterday, new plans were put forward for a series of "super prisons" holding as many as 3,000 inmates. Which will mean that some of the nation's most famous old slammers could get a new, and very different, lease of life. A thinktank has suggested that notorious nicks such as Dartmoor, Wormwood Scrubs and Pentonville could be reinvented as boutique hotels. Where once meals were shoved through hatches in the door, Bolly and blinis will be delivered on room service. In-room mas

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