An extra 4,000 prison places are to be created, spread across 16 prisons, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said last week
The government has pledged to deliver 20,000 more places by the mid-2020s, when it expects the prison population to increase by 19,000.
Prisons are currently at full capacity, with about 80,000 people incarcerated. However, the Howard League for Prison Reform warned the ‘funding for measures which could help people in prison is miniscule compared to the £3.5bn devoted to expanding the estate’.
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