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Thought Catalog. New Internationalist. The New Yorker. Machiavelli’s 27 Rules of War. The Browser - Writing worth reading. Blogposts. Most Popular - Complete List. Features. Prison system cuts point to further cheap super-prisons | News. The justice secretary, Chris Grayling has ordered an already overstretched prison service to find a further £149m of savings in the next 12 months to save £2,200 per prisoner, Alan Travis and Steven Morris report today. Figures from the National Offender Management Service (Noms) - which manages public prisons across England and Wales and contracts for privately run prisons - show they have already cut costs considerably since 2011, and with the addition of this latest wave of reductions, the service will have lost £900m from its budget in that time equivalent to a 24% reduction overall.

The table below shows the cumulative savings made by Noms since the 2011/12 financial year: The cost-saving initiative will see an extension of a "benchmark" programme, whereby public sector prison expenditure will be made to match that of privately run jails. In a report last year, the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) expressed grave concerns on the rise of super prisons: Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Articles. Insights & Publications. The Information.