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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
20 Ibid. and National Offender Management Service (2018) Annual Report and Accounts 2017–18, London: The Stationery Office 21 HM Treasury (2015) Spending review and autumn statement 2015, London: HM Stationery Office and House …
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