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<p>This Government will always ensure that we have enough prison places for those
sent to us by the courts and we continue to modernise the prison estate so that it
delivers best value for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>We have a long term strategy for
managing the prison estate which will provide more adult male prison capacity than
we inherited from the previous Government. We also have a range of contingencies available
to manage temporary or unexpected increases in the population.</p><p> </p><p>We are
expecting to open over 2,000 adult male prison places in the coming months, which
include 1,250 new places at four new house-blocks. We are also building a new prison
in Wrexham that will increase capacity by a further 2,100 places by 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Taken
together, these measures will enable us to accommodate safely those sentenced to custody
by the courts.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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