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As of June 2023, the United Kingdom has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in Western Europe, at 159 people per 100,000 in England and Wales; 162 people per 100,000 in Scotland; 97 people per 100,000 in Northern Ireland; and the largest prison population in Western Europe.
Incarceration numbers. Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Location Rates Number Afghanistan: 45 19,000 Albania: 168 4,565 Algeria: 217 94,749 American Samoa (USA) 538 301 Andorra: 60 51 Angola: 68 24,490 Anguilla (United Kingdom) 240 36 Antigua and Barbuda: 400 400 Argentina: 254 117,810 Armenia: 83 2,469 Aruba (Netherlands) 288 311 Australia
The prison population is projected to increase to between 95,700 and 105,200 by March 2029, with a central estimate of 100,800, figures published by the MoJ in December last year show.
In the 2008–9 period, there was a prison population in Scotland of about 7,300, [41] equating to 142 people per 100,000 population, very similar to England and Wales. Spending on Scotland's prisons was around £350 million in 2007–8. [42]
The prison population is projected to increase to between 95,700 and 105,200 by March 2029, with a central estimate of 100,800, figures published on Thursday show.
The prison population is projected to increase to between 95,700 and 105,200 by March 2029, figures show (PA) ... which assume a 5 per cent increase in cases in the courts, the prison population ...
With the increasing population, law changes resulting in longer prison sentences and a national government prison building program to build 20,000 more prison spaces by the mid 2020s the total UK prison population is expected to increase to almost 110,000 by 2026. [4] [5]
At the time, people from outside the EEA accounted for 4.3% of the UK population aged 16 or over. ... Foreign nationals accounted for 12% of the total UK prison population as of September 30 2024.