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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.
Our history shows that when new prisons are built, they are too frequently filled with more prisoners while old prisons are not decommissioned at all.
However, one key component which seems to be excluded from these calculations is the likely impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. Many expert witnesses who contributed to the recent House of Commons Justice Select Committee report expressed their concerns that TR would increase prison numbers through two main causes:
Sometimes one person stands up against a revolution. Thirty years ago, on 23 February 1981, 200 armed officers of the Civil Guard burst into the
