Sentences with phrase «prison building programmes»

«When I met with the UK Government ministers some weeks ago, it was clear that the UK Government would consider their prison building programme as part of the spending review.

The Liberal - Democrats said they would cancel Labour's prison building programme and replace many prison sentences with what they call «rigorously enforced community sentences».

On 17 December 2007 the minister of justice, Jack Straw, told the House of Commons Justice Select Committee that the gross cost of the agreed prison building programme would be about # 3.8 bn.

It was predictable therefore that one of Lord Carter's recommendations in his recent review of prisons would be an increase in the prison building programme (see Securing the Future — Proposals for the Efficient and Sustainable Use of Custody in England and Wales, December 2007).

With an apparently ever - increasing prison population, would money desperately needed to maintain and improve HMCS be channelled instead into a new prison building programme?

Not exact matches

«The Government is pursuing an extensive building programme to expand the prison estate and expect to deliver an additional 1,750 places in 2009.