The Howard League for Penal Reform's weekly prison watch provides figures on the prison population from the Ministry of Justice. See most up-to-date figures here >
Overcrowding
Prisons are extremely overcrowded. Overcrowding is not evenly distributed across the prison estate, so some prisons hold many more people than they are designed to do so safely. You can find out more about which prisons are overcrowded and by how much on this page.
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