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Prisons - Crim
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- 192% rise in prison pop. since 19931/3 of people leaving prison said they had nowhere to stay
- 24 of the country's 56 prisons were closed in SwedenNorway incarceration rate is 75/100,000
US IC/r is 707/100,000
UK IC/R is 145/100,000 - 3Norway has highest recidivism rate at 20% US has 76.6% UK has 26.8%46% of all prisoners will re-offend within a year of release, and 68% of people sentenced to less than a year will reoffend
- 4Re-offending costs up to £13.5bn a yearNo statutory support for offenders serving less than 12 months
- 55 new community prisons for women announced in Nov 2016 Prison Safety + Reform White Paper£13bn to build up to 10,000 new adult prison places in Nov 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper
- 6Officers outnumbered 3.6:1 (4 to 1)Sep 2015 - 2016: Over 25,000 prisoner assault incidents within prisons - 68% increase
- 72015 - 2016: 6,430 assaults on prison staff - 82% increase2015 - 2016: Self-harm incidents (38,000) - 61% increase
- 8Record number of suicides in prison at 119 in 2016. 29 more than last year.Between 2010 and 2015, prison pop remained more or less stable, but officer numbers dropped by almost a third.
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- Look, feel free to use this if you happen to have an essay on the UK Prison Crisis but it's really just for me
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- Chef Goldblum · Jun 2018
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- Jun 11, 2018
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