Asahikawa Prison completed --- all private rooms
goofy Google Translate of Hokkaido Shimbun Press
2016/Sept/10 --- Rebuilding of the aging facility of Asahikawa Prison, which has been underway since 2011, has been finished. With the health of its increasing number elderly inmates in mind, all cells are now private rooms.
With a capacity of 500 inmates, the rebuilt prison building is three floors of reinforced concrete with a total area of 31,535 square meters. Each private cell is about seven square meters and has a bed, desk, chair, TV, wash basin and toilet. Rather than traditional tatami mats and futon, all the cells have beds to reduce the burden to the older inmate population, whose average age has been increasing dramatically in recent years.
http://dd.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/societ ... 14580.html
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Also refer to our previous prison post:
Asahikawa Prison now has a real loose character