United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 48916
Prisons: Overcrowding
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29 April 2025
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.
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29 April 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.
Source: Commons
8 May 2025
Answer
This 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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-29/48916
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1798211
- uk · wq-1798211 · source updated 8 May 2025