Prison
Prisons cost £4.2 billion in 2022/23
Latest MoJ information release gives cost per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison
27th March 2024
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Latest MoJ information release gives cost per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison
We spent £3billion on imprisonment in England and Wales last year. Government accounts also show the wide variation in costs between individual prisons.
