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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.
United Kingdom: England & Wales 140 86,256 United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 99 1,910 United Kingdom: Scotland 150 8,274 United States: 541 1,808,100 Uruguay: 449 15,767 Uzbekistan: 85 29,000 Vanuatu: 65 195 Venezuela: 199 67,200 Vietnam: 135 133,986 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 368 114 United States Virgin Islands (USA) 251 261
List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current use.
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.
The prison population in England and Wales stood at 86,089 as of December 9 2024. Of this total, 82,218 were adult males (95.5%), 3,500 were adult females (4.1%) and 371 were children aged 10 to ...
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 2021 US incarceration rate of 531 per 100,000 population was the 6th highest rate. [1] According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. [5] The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6]
The prison population could pass 100,000 in three years time, the government has said, paving the way for a further overcrowding crisis in the crumbling prison estate.. New forecasts from the ...