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Se­nior In­ves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ist

More than $5.2 bil­lion was al­lo­cat­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s prison sys­tem be­tween 2016 and 2023, ac­cord­ing to Guardian Me­dia In­ves­tiga­tive Desk’s cal­cu­la­tions.

The high­est an­nu­al al­lo­ca­tion came in 2019, at $750.2 mil­lion, while the low­est was in 2020, around $517 mil­lion. Guardian Me­dia sought da­ta dat­ing as far back as 2011, but ac­tu­al ex­pen­di­ture fig­ures for 2014 and 2015 were not avail­able.