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"The National Party is claiming 530 extra beds added to the Government's prison building programmes are costing nearly $1 million each, but Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor has disputed the figure. Mr O'Connor said there was no $490 million blowout. "The projected costs of the projects has risen, the number of beds that we planned originally at 1000 has gone up to 1600 and there have been issues of the additional costs of concrete and steel in a very buoyant economy," he said. "I'm confident we will build four very good new prisons to deal with the issues ahead of us." [Brief] [top topic]
