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As of June 2023, the United Kingdom has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in Western Europe, at 159 people per 100,000 in England and Wales; 162 people per 100,000 in Scotland; 97 people per 100,000 in Northern Ireland; and the largest prison population in Western Europe.
United Kingdom: England & Wales 140 86,256 United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 99 1,910 United Kingdom: Scotland 150 8,274 United States of America: 541 1,808,100 Uruguay 449 15,767 Uzbekistan 85 29,000 Vanuatu 65 195 Venezuela 199 67,200 Vietnam 135 133,986 Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 368 114 Virgin Islands (USA) 251 261 Yemen 14 4,268 Zambia 125
List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current use.
On 21 October, the prison population in England and Wales was 87,465, with 1,671 spare places. Before the early release scheme began, Ministry of Justice data from 6 September showed the prison ...
The prison population in England and Wales stood at 86,089 as of December 9 2024. Of this total, 82,218 were adult males (95.5%), 3,500 were adult females (4.1%) and 371 were children aged 10 to ...
The prison population could pass 100,000 in three years time, the government has said, ... MoJ figures show there were 86,059 adult prisoners behind bars in England and Wales on Monday. The so ...
The recorded prison population in Scotland between 2021 and 2022 was a 1% increase from the recorded number of inmates in 2020–2021. The Scottish Government highlighted in November 2022 when the data for 2021–2022 was released that the balance between the balance of those sentenced and the remand populations in Scotland's prisons continued to shift.
The Prison Reform Trust said it was concerned the figures showed a reverse of a more than decade-long trend which saw the number of women in prison fall substantially from 7,418 in 2014 to 4,120 ...