England's prisons are over-crowded. The Industrial Revolution at the end of the century leads to the displacement of many people and an increase in petty crime. Numbers are swelled by debtors and in ...

Prisons across England and Wales are at their highest capacity for months, with fewer cells available than at any time this year. There are fewer than 1,000 spare prison cells across England and ...

LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The prison population in England and Wales reached a record ... Britain's new Labour government said prisons could be full within weeks and early release was needed ...

Official UK government records lump Welsh prisons in with those in England – a fact lamented during December’s hearing on safety standards in HMP Parc in south Wales. The committee’s chair ...

Around 1,750 prisoners in England and Wales were recently released ... Politicians, legal professionals and academics all agree that prisons are drastically overcrowded, leading to dangerous ...

Child prisons across England and Wales are "significantly more violent" than their adult counterparts, said the chief inspector of prisons in The Guardian. Across these institutions, "levels of ...

In September 2024, prisons were 98.7% full, and just over 1,000 prisoners were freed in response to the shortage. The following month, in October, another release took place, temporarily ...

Prisons across England and Wales are at their highest capacity for months, with fewer cells available than at any time this year. There are fewer than 1,000 spare prison cells across England and Wales ...