Claim: It's significantly more expensive to send a child to prison than it is to send them to Eton.
Fact-check: Prison or Eton: which costs more? - Full Fact
Verdict: correct. in 2016/17 the average annual price per place for children in custody ranged from £76,000 to £210,000. the full annual fee to send a child to eton in 2018/19 is just over £40,000.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2018-06-07T00:00:00