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PRISON FACTS Previous Fact 75 Next Fact On 30 June 2007 there were 2,221 prisoners aged over 60 in England & Wales, including 405 over 70
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8 December 2008: building Titan prisons is a costly fast-track to a failed US prison system
22 February 2008 - Prisons bust
15 February 2008 - prison population hits new record high
8 February 2008 - prison population reaches another record high
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December 2007 - response to the publication of the Carter review
December 2007: Prison Reform Trust statement on Lord Carter's prisons review
30 March 2007 - Prison numbers reach record levels
January 2007 - Government guilty of "criminal negligence" over blocked prisons
October 2006 - Home Secretary advertises for prison ship places
October 2006 - Seven point plan to end jail overcrowding
April 2006 - Prisons face renewed crowding crisis
October 2005 - Five ways to stem prison overcrowding
September 2005 - Red alert for prisons: 20 days countdown 'til full capacity
August 2005 - Jail breaches safe limits
March 2005 - More men in prison than ever before
January 2004 - England and Wales, Western Europe's jail capital
October 2003 - Overcrowded prisons are unsafe prisons
August 2003 - Overcrowded jails aren't working
August 2003 - Use of police cells indication of prison estate in crisis
June 2003 - Prisons in crisis
June 2003 - Wandsworth prison overcrowded
May 2003 - Prison population explosion
April 2003 - Moratorium on new prison building
March 2003 - Female prison population reaches new record
February 2003 - UK highest imprisonment rate in EU
Month 2002 - Police cells used to hold prisoners
Month 2002 - HMP Ford overcrowded
Month 2002 - Overcrowding crisis
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