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Official prison population projection predicts a short time fall in the prison population but acknowledges that recent policy announcements might reverse this.
Justice Committee calls for reinvestment in prisons and probation and ban on sentences less than one year.
Latest stats show 3% drops in prison population & probation caseload.
Despite decreases since the start of the year, the prison population is projected to steadily increase from its current level.
Pragmatic and incremental advice from the Criminal Justice Alliance on how to reduce the prison population by 12,000 over the next four years.
Official projections predict prison population to increased by further 1600 by 2022. Older prisoners will be 17% of total population by then.
Freedom of Information request reveals that the average tariff for life sentences for murder has increased by more than 20% in the last 10 years.
This is a guest post by Kate Paradine, Chief Executive Officer of Women in Prison. A broken system Since joining Women in Prison at the end
There are almost 3 million unconvicted people in prison across the world. Proportion of remand prisoners has shot up in the Americas but reduced in Europe.
Snapshot breakdown of current England and Wales prison population by age, gender, type of offence and length of sentence in MoJ infographic.
Intriguing and concerning new report from the MoJ traces the massive growth in our use of incarceration at the same time as the crime rate was falling.
Latest MoJ stats show big increase in long term prisoners and a jump in probation caseload for the first time in 5 years.
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