Corrections Minister Gerard Maley breaks down the $495 million allocated to Corrections in the NT budget, which will go towards additional staff and expanding operations to address increasing prisoner numbers.

He told Katie Woolf $20 million is for prisoner health services, $4.2 million will be spent on DV programs, with $6 million for electronic monitoring.

Mr Maley says the NT’s surveillance legislation is being reviewed so that police can easily locate those with electronic monitoring devices.

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