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With defendants held prisoner for an average of nine weeks and a prison place costing £37,000 a year, the charity estimated it cost the taxpayer £165m.
Each new prison place costs £170,000 to build and maintain, and the cost per prisoner per year is £45,000.
This failing system is expensive: each prison place costs £45,000 a year.
Each new prison place now costs £170,000 over the life of the accommodation.
There has also been a reduction in spending over the last parliament of £2,200 per prison place.
Each prison place costs about £45,000 a year, with almost one in two offenders reoffending within one year, Mr Cameron said.
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"Double prison places to enforce zero tolerance on crime".
The move is expected to save up to 300 prison places and £10 million.
But overall, the justice bill is expected to save 2,650 prison places and £80 million.
With prison places costing £40,000 a year, the Government is currently throwing good money after bad.
Some 2,000 prison places will be added over the next year, he points out.
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