Prison Reform Trust
View the Prison Reform Trust web site map Click here if you have anything you would like to ask us
PRISON FACTS Previous Fact 55 Next Fact There are eleven privately run prisons in England and Wales
News
Overcrowding
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
Watch PRT director Juliet Lyon
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
9 August 2010: A&I volunteering opportunity
PRT writing competition
Media enquiries
Conditions
Deaths in custody
Disability
Drugs and Alcohol
Elderly prisoners
Families
Foreign national prisoners
Healthcare
Inspectorate reports
Life sentenced prisoners
Mental health
New and private prisons
Policy
Prison staff
Race and prison
Recalls to custody
Remand
Resettlement
Voting/Citizenship
Women
Young People
Print this page
Watch PRT director Juliet Lyon

talking about Jack Straw's plans for 'titan' prisons here
Goto the top of the page
© 2006 Prison Reform Trust Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy
15 Northburgh Street, London, EC1V 0JR.
Tel: 020 7251 5070, Fax: 020 7251 5076		 Website by Baigent