Prisons: Overcrowding
Commons · Question 48916 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 8 May 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of overcrowding in prisons.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 8 May 2025
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...