Prisons: Television
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to prisoners is of the provision of television access in prison cells.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The cost per prisoner in establishments in the adult estate is 50 pence per week if the prisoner is sharing a cell, and £1 per week for prisoners in a single cell.
Children and young people in the youth secure estate are not charged for use of televisions.
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