11. The Home Office stressed that the two sectors supported one another in times of crisis and that co-operation between the two sectors in such situations was exemplary. For example, during a very serious incident at Lincoln prison in autumn 2002, some of the staff who helped to reassert control came from private sector prisons. The private sector was not paid when it offered mutual aid to public sector prisons in the same way that the public sector would not be paid for mutual aid to private sector prisons.11
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