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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: 541 1,808,100 Uruguay: 449 15,767 Uzbekistan: 85 29,000 Vanuatu: 65 195 Venezuela: 199 67,200 Vietnam: 135 133,986 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 368 114 United States Virgin Islands (USA) 251 261
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 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 ...
More than 100,000 prisoners could be held in jails in England and Wales within five years, according to government estimates. The prison population is projected to increase to between 95,700 and ...
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 2021 US incarceration rate of 531 per 100,000 population was the 6th highest rate. [1] According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. [5] The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6]