Prison: the facts
Prison: the factsBromley Briefings Summer 2019Facts and figures provide a better basis than opinion for policy and practice change. Drawn largely from government sources, these facts chart the extraordinary rise in prison numbers over the last twenty years, inflation in sentencing and the social and economic consequences of overuse of custody. They reveal the state of our overcrowded prisons and the state of people in them, the impact of deep budget cuts, the pace and scale of change in the justice system and the scope for community solutions to and England and Wales have the highest imprisonment rates in western EuropeThe prison population has risen by 69% in the last 30 years but it has fallen in the last two59,000people were sent to prison to serve a sentence in 2018NearlyYet there is no link between the prison population and levels of crime according to the National Audit International comparisons also show there is no consistent link between the England and Wales.
14.5 13.7 12.4 r 58.3 45.2 35.7 36.4 55.5 Sou Pe r-100-50 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 2006 2008 2010 2012 2016 2018 People serving mandatory life sentences are spending more of their sentence in prison. 10 This is set to rapidly increase as judges are imposing substantially longer tariff periods.11 12 Many are released from prison, only to return ...
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