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Rehabilitation of Prisoners

: Is the Minister saying that she will look favourably on creating new, smaller prisons that are closer to the local community? If so, is that why recently there has been no move on the two sites for very large prison establishments for which planning permission is held? Can she share her vision of the way forward on prison building? Is it huge, American-type jails, or smaller, community-focused projects that have a better chance of rehabilitation and that keep people closer to the communities that we eventually want them to come out into?