Hong Kong created the first environmentally friendly prison. But this prison instead create a debate on the country's most densely populated.
Future prison costs the U.S. $ 200 million (USD 1.8 billion) to build facilities based on sustainable concepts. This concept includes open space with green features and energy efficient environment.
Authorities say the Lo Wu prison, which opened last August saying that this place aims to provide more humane living conditions to the 1400 women prisoners in that place.
Prison offers advanced features such as a green roof to a lower temperature, rooftop solar panels, natural lighting systems, a room with a higher level and larger residential blocks to enhance natural ventilation.
Lo Wu facility built in the next three years in 53 000 m2 plot of land in the remote region bordering China.
But the buildings that have acknowledged this environment creates debate. The government was unfair, creating a prison for the sake of showing a healthy life to the seven million inhabitants.
South China Morning Post reported that the jail was already stepping over government priorities.
Appears irony that convicted criminals who benefit from environmental planning, but law-abiding citizens have to compromise on their living and working environment to the poor spatial structure in the region.
Poverty in the region increased by 8.6% over several years from 1.16 million inhabitants in 2005 to 1.26 people in mid-2010, based on data from Oxfam Hong Kong, as quoted by Yahoo News
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