Some one gonna get rich

How about we put this out to tender and look at bids that are not politically connected? I'm pretty sure this can be done (and done properly) for under $20 million.

This $90 million is going to top $120 million once the rest of the cronies get their sub-contracts.

Another, less cruel option, would be to take all the murderers and rapists out back and shoot them in the head. This would increase bed space very quickly and save us $100 million.

Why are we building an edifice that doesn't work? Recidivism is around 60%, that means prison doesn't work. Wake up. Once again, we're are the lawyers like Mr. Munroe that argue to stop hanging because it apparently doesn't work. If we stop hanging because the apparent, sofisticated, progressive democrats amount ourselves think it doesn't work, then we must not build a 60% Recidivism rate prison.

Can't wait to hear who the preferred contractor is. @sickened, you are right on, publish the list of contractors invited to bid then publish the amounts tendered by each.
Don't tell us, just show us. the PLP never issued a contract that wasn't padded breast, boongie and thigh!

Can't wait for this prison to be built. this will be a game changer, at least for a while.

Again this government is following the misdirection’s of the fallen USA about prison. The US has the highest prison population in the world. Their parole system was introduced to reduce overcrowding and now our ‘mix up’ minister of national wants to introduce parole here. Not as a measure to reduce prison population but to deny inmates who have earned time off for good behavior from getting it. The US intention was to keep as many Black males as possible behind bars to take them away from families from societies and other institutions and make them dysfunctional. So they turned prisons into a lucrative, money making industry, building thousands of prison cells and loading them up with young , Black and Hispanic males. Thousands charged with minor offenses, like simple drug possession. Then when Obama became president, young men became motivated to go to college, to get better paying jobs and to avoid prison. And by the end of Obama’s term, the population in privately operated prisons were reduced by 50 percent. And guess what? A lot of these prisons were owned by the Clintons. Bill and Crooked Hillary. And Crookef Hillary had set a plan to build the prison population back up she had won the presidency. The Feds had already collected information on many young, Black and Hispanic males in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia from sources like Facebook. And Crooked Hillary had planned for the national guard to round up these young men and pile them into prisons. With no specific charges initially but eventually finding charges to put on them. But Crooked Hillary was beaten at the polls and will never, ever, ever see the White House, inside or out, as president. And so America’s prison population continues to decline and dwindle. Here it is increasing simply because the policing system is wrong. The Bahamas adapted a lot of American policing strategies and tactics that were generated specifically towards Black people. The intent was not to meet out justice and protect the innocent, but to ensure that as many as possible end up in prison and behind bars. Remember There was always a war going on. War on drugs, war on terrorism, war on immigration war, war war. And probably in ignorance, The BaHAMAS, formally a peaceful and loving nation, declared war on its young, black men. The casualties continue to pile up.

Build a prison that the country can afford. One that has the essentials and is secure and moderately comfortable. Then build and add as the demands require such.

O, and by the way, Trump had also planned to send the National Guard into cities like Chicago and confront the ‘gangs’ in military fashion. After meeting with civil rights leaders, he agreed to stand down, but the violence across the US continues to escalate. The new phonemes are mass shootings ( where four or more are murdered) or accidental shootings, where persons going about their everyday business. Here the assassination style killings still continue.

@john, you need to leave that Kool-Aid alone and start taking your medications again, with lots of water.

Does anyone have statistics on exactly how many people were rehabilitated at the "Bahamas Department of Corrections"?

I have never heard of any individuals that were in any way "corrected" by the prison system. Alternatively, I know of many instances where people went to prison for minor offenses and came out of prison to commit serious crimes.

Well, goodness gracious, who ever saw this coming? LOL.