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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2021
The private sector will be able to speak about its prisons, but the benefit of having a modern prison is such that, in order to compare apples with apples, it would be necessary to take off the mortgage element before looking at the cost per prisoner place and to look at a comparable modern prison.