More than 5,000 items of medical equipment, including crutches refurbished by prisoners, have been returned to the NHS and sent to Ukraine as part of a recycling scheme.
Neil Ducker, operations manager at Suez in Surrey, said the company was working in partnership with HMP Feltham to get the equipment back in shape.
“We have workshops there where they sanitise, rebuild and refurbish this equipment,” he explained.
According to Suez, young offenders this year had dedicated more than 160 hours to the project, delivering over 700 crutches for Ukraine and returning 350 items to the NHS.