The cost per place of running prisons for the year 2003 are as follows:
Prisons and Places of Detention
|
Cost per Prison Place
|
Arbour Hill
|
72,800
|
Castlerea
|
72,100
|
Cork
|
71,500
|
Cloverhill
|
68,700
|
Curragh
|
67,200
|
Fort Mitchel
|
88,500
|
Limerick
|
88,500
|
Loughan House
|
56,200
|
Midlands
|
70,500
|
Mountjoy (including Dóchas Centre)
|
98,400
|
Portlaoise
|
146,200
|
Shelton Abbey
|
70,300
|
St. Patrick’s Institution
|
77,700
|
Training Unit
|
77,500
|
Wheatfield
|
74,900
|
The cost per prisoner place for the year 2004 will be available in the annual report of the Irish Prison Service for 2004, which is expected to be published in autumn 2005.