Here are some of the key statistics about the prison population in England and Wales, including gender, nationality and ethnicity. The figures have been compiled by the PA news agency using the ...

A plan to tackle overcrowding in prisons will deliver 14,000 more prison places in England and Wales by 2031, the government has announced. It involves building four new prisons, adding new blocks ...

Violence in British prisons has reached alarming levels, with an average of 74 assaults per day recorded across prisons in ...

“This strategy reveals that their prison building plans were years ... than 100,000 prisoners could be held in jails in England and Wales by 2029. This followed warnings from Whitehall’s ...

Wandsworth prison in south London holds the highest number of inmates of foreign nationality among prisons in England and Wales (Lucy North/PA) Here are some of the key statistics about the prison ...