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Speaker 1: It looks like the government is going to have to

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Speaker 1: get a move on and build some more prisons. There's

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Speaker 1: a new report from the Ministry of Justice that predicts

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Speaker 1: that the prison population is going to grow by thirty

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Speaker 1: six percent just over the next ten years. Floyd Duplassy

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Speaker 1: is the national president of the Corrections Association. Hey, Floyd,

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Speaker 1: good evening, either why so many prisoners? Are we just

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Speaker 1: locking them up more?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're just locking them up more. There was six

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Speaker 2: ord years ago there was predictions that the prison population

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Speaker 2: was going to go to those numbers. It was a

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Speaker 2: time where National had obviously predicted and planned to build

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Speaker 2: some prisons that was scaled down under Labor And now

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Speaker 2: obviously with national backend, they've got that focus on crime

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Speaker 2: and focus on dealing with what's happening out in the

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Speaker 2: public and with that comes an increase in prison population.

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Speaker 1: How close to capacity are we at the moment?

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Speaker 2: At the moment, we're sitting in about ninety five percent capacity,

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Speaker 2: So it's not looking good at all. There is obviously

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Speaker 2: slight hope in the very very short term with Waycaria

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Speaker 2: coming online within the next two to three months, and

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Speaker 2: that'll give us another five hundred bids, so that'll increase

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Speaker 2: it very slightly. But even if we incorporate that, we're

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Speaker 2: still sitting at around that ninety percent capacity immediately, let

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Speaker 2: alone any small increase that's predicted over the next twelve months,

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Speaker 2: and we'll be full within twelve to eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant, Oh just twelve to eighteen months, did you say.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what our predictions are, given that even with that,

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Speaker 2: we're only sitting at about a ten percent buffer.

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Speaker 1: Right, So there's no way we can build another prison

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Speaker 1: in twelve to eighteen months. So we're going to have

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Speaker 1: to start looking at double bunking, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely going to need to be some serious plans.

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Speaker 2: We have been invited by the department to meet with

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Speaker 2: them next week to start looking at what options are

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Speaker 2: on the table and what can we do. But there

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Speaker 2: is no question obviously at the moment there is a

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Speaker 2: plan to build the new prison down in christ Church.

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Speaker 2: Means now that's only going to add another two hunred

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Speaker 2: and forty bids. But even that they announced at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the year, they've got a completion date of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine. So building these things it just takes

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Speaker 2: far too long and we're going to need to do

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Speaker 2: some serious planning now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Floyd listen, thanks for talking us through

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Speaker 1: to appreciate. That's Floyd Duplicy Corrections Association, National President. For

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