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  <date date="2018-11-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Mobilong Prison</name>
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          <heading>Mobilong Prison</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4335" kind="question">
        <name>Mr ODENWALDER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elizabeth</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-10-17" qonNum="438">
            <name>Mobilong Prison</name>
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        <text id="20181113b9f1972e007d4413a0001221">
          <inserted>438 <by role="member" id="4335">Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth)</by> (17 October 2018).  What consideration has the government given to an expansion at Mobilong?</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4843" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.L. WINGARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Gibson</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Police</name>
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            <name>Minister for Recreation</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2018-10-17" qonNum="438">
            <name>Mobilong Prison</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4843">The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing):</by>  The government has considered various options including expanding some existing sites and in response, recently announced, through the budget, an additional 310 high security beds and critical supporting infrastructure at Yatala Labour Prison (270 beds) and the Adelaide Women's Prison (40 beds).</inserted>
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          <inserted>The government will continue to consider various options in regards to achieving its commitment to improving the state's prison system in order to accommodate the growing prison population, strengthen security, improve productivity and system performance and drive down the rate of reoffending.</inserted>
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