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First, £54K to provide a prisoner with bed and 3 meals, so why is my pension only £12,500  |
Firstly, your costs are lower as hopefully we don't need security guards to keep an eye on you!
Secondly, your pension is largely determined by how much you chose to put into it, we're not a Communist country in which we expect the State to provide all of our retirement money for us.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Second, why hasn't building new prisons been on the agenda? overcrowding isn't a new issue
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The previous government didn't want to spend much more money on them but it's been on the agenda. The lower emphasis was probably because it was not a vote-winner. The current government is keener but they don't happen overnight. Maybe the media you follow doesn't cover this sufficiently?
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Fourteen thousand new prison places, with a target to open by 2031, form part of a 10-year Prison Capacity Strategy to make sure we always have the spaces needed to keep the public safe. [11/12/2024
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...p-streets-safe
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First look inside new jail for 1,500 prisoners [28/03/2025]
A prison the size of 39 football pitches has opened in East Yorkshire.
HMP Millsike has been built on land next to HMP Full Sutton, near York, and will house almost 1,500 category C inmates.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it would create 600 jobs and includes workshops and training facilities aimed at getting offenders into work on release.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who opened the prison, said it "set the standard for the jails of the future".
The government wants to create 14,000 additional prison places by 2031.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c204q2dw052o
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Three prison builds green lit to tackle capacity crisis [16/05/2025]
Plans to build three new prisons as part of a £4.7bn spend will now go ahead after the Treasury signed off on funding, a senior minister has said.
On Wednesday, justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said the Treasury would fund “in full” plans to build the prisons, in a bid to create 14,000 extra places by 2031 to tackle a severe shortage.
More cells will also be added at existing prisons.
It will represent a total capital investment of £4.7bn, she said.
“While the Spending Review is ongoing, I can announce that the Treasury will fund our prison expansion plans, in full, across the Spending Review period,” she said at a Downing Street press conference.
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https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/c...is-16-05-2025/