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Defined Terms
Capital Expenditure Cost Of Building New or Modify/Extending
Existing Prisons
The below extract from
$700m maximum security prison planned for Lara, Victoria - The Age (24 Apr 2018)
evidences that the capital expenditure cost of providing maximum security
prisons is at least
$25,000 per inmate per annum
based on $1 million dollars per prisoner to build the planned new Lara Prison
divide by a 40 years life of the prison, before a major refit:
"A new maximum security men’s prison with 700 beds will be built in Lara, at
a cost of almost $700 million, as Victoria’s prison population grows to
record levels.
The Andrews government will commit $689.5 million in next week’s state
budget – almost $1 million per prisoner – to build the jail, which it says
will open in 2022."
Spreading a $690m capital outlay over 40 years is being optimistic, as
doubtless, alterations and additions at
the planned new Lara Barwon Prison will be required well prior to 40 years.
To the SuperMax - The Australian - "A special unit in this prison houses
Australia’s most dangerous extremists. We gain rare access and discover a
ticking time bomb."
Below is an extract from 'Supermax
prison' - Wiki
"Supermax
prisons however are extremely expensive to run and can cost about three
times the national average for a maximum security facility.
However, many states now
have created SuperMax prisons, either as stand-alone facilities or as
secure units within lower-security prisons. State SuperMax prisons
include Pelican
Bay in California and Tamms in
Illinois. The USP
in Marion, Illinois was recently downgraded to a medium-security
facility. Some facilities such as California
State Prison, Corcoran (COR) are hybrids incorporating a SuperMax
partition, housing high security prisoners such as Charles
Manson.
In September 2001, the
Australian state of New
South Wales opened a facility in the Goulburn
Correctional Centre to the SuperMax standard. While its condition
is an improvement over that of Katingal of the 1970s, this new facility
is nonetheless designed on the same principle of sensory deprivation. It
has been set up for 'AA' prisoners who are deemed a risk to public
safety and the instruments of government and civil order, or believed to
be beyond rehabilitation. Corrections
Victoria in the state of Victoria also
operates the Acacia and Maleuca units at Barwon
Prison which serve to hold the prisoners requiring the highest
security in that state including Melbourne Gangland figures
such as Tony
Mokbel and Carl
Williams, who was murdered in the Acacia unit in 2010."
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Corrective services
- annual report 2017
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Productivity Commission
defines Capital Costs to be:
"Combined
depreciation costs, the user cost of capital (calculated as 8 per cent
of the value of government land and other assets), and debt servicing
fees – financial lease payments incurred by governments as part of
contracts for privately owned prisons or prisons built under
Public‑Private Partnership arrangements, comparable to the user cost of
capital for government owned facilities."
See:
Annual Administrative Cost of Australian Prisons
Material Public Purse Prison and Prisoner Costs
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