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As of June 2023, the total UK prison population was 95,526: composed of 85,851 prisoners from England and Wales, 7,775 from Scotland and 1,900 from Northern Ireland. [1] At the end of the first quarter of 2024, there were 87,869 prisoners in England and Wales. [4]
The data source (World Prison Brief) (WPB) does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, with its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.. In the main table see England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands.
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 World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted by the Institute For Crime & Justice Policy Research ( ICPR ), [ 1] Birkbeck College, University of London. [ 2][ 3] It was previously hosted by the International Centre for Prison Studies ...
A freedom of information request to the CPS revealed that of 6200 defendants, 67% were White, 4% were Asian, 3% were Black, 1% were mixed race and 1% other. This is down from an earlier study in 2011, in which White males represented 85% of convicted child sex offenders and 86% of the general population in 2011.
English: World map of prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See the date on the map. Rate is per 100,000 of national population. For the exact numbers click on the source link below and then go to the table tab. See also: List of countries by incarceration rate.
Description. Prisoner population rate world map.svg. English: Prisoner population rate per 100,000 population by country. The map may be old. The latest data is here: Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate. From World Prison Brief. Incarceration rates are based on inmates in both prisons and jails.
Overall, 25 U.S. states and three nations — El Salvador, Cuba, and Rwanda — have incarceration rates even higher than the national incarceration rate of the United States, according to the report.