Transcription of Prison: the facts
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Prison: the factsBromley Briefings Summer 2019 facts 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 2018 NearlyYet 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.
All deaths 3.8 Natural causes 2.0 Self PUÅPJ[LK 1.1 0.8 Other f 10,213 3,266 2013 2015 2018 4,963 359 625 995. 5 There were three homicides in prison in the year to March 2019 and another five the year before.16 Recorded sexual assaults in prison have quadrupled since 2012.
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