Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 48916
Prisons: Overcrowding
Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.
Answer
Sir Nicholas DakinThis Government inherited a prisons system in crisis and took immediate action to ensure it did not collapse. However, SDS40 was not a long term solution and we are once again at over 99% capacity. Recently, we only had 732 places left across the whole of...
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