A prison that was once the UK's most overcrowded prison will be demolished this summer - seven years after the facility closed its doors forever.
HMP Kennet, the former Category C Men’s prison in Maghull, opened in December 2007 and quickly gained a reputation for overcrowding and drug-taking - with one in four prisoners testing positive for drugs in random tests in 2015/16.
It was shut down in 2016 by then-justice minister Michael Gove, who described it as "one of the most expensive category C prisons in the country".
