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Prisons

Answer

The percentage of overcrowding in each prison is shown in the following table. Figures are shown for each financial year since 1998–99. The table shows the sector into which each prison falls and includes totals for public prisons, contracted out prisons and for the whole prison estate.

Overcrowding Percentage
Establishment name	Public/Contracted outestablishment	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06 to December
Acklington	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albany	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Altcourse	Contracted out	30.4	53.6	71.6	79.5	98.1	96.8	78.4	83.7
Ashfield	Contracted out	n/a	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ashwell	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	1.1	0.7	2.1
Askham Grange	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Aylesbury	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.5	0.9	0.3	0.0
Bedford	Public	40.0	40.1	42.1	35.6	55.7	58.9	54.0	64.0
Belmarsh	Public	18.9	10.0	32.9	39.5	49.9	0.0	40.4	39.1
Birmingham	Public	69.7	69.8	61.5	25.5	42.7	41.6	38.5	38.3
Blakenhurst	Public	43.5	44.2	41.8	21.5	24.4	25.7	24.8	20.6
Blantyre House	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Blundeston	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	30.7	28.2	27.6	26.7
Brinsford	Public	30.5	31.1	18.5	14.5	12.3	11.5	10.0	11.2
Bristol	Public	14.9	18.2	15.3	14.7	16.0	15.0	53.5	23.6
Brixton	Public	51.7	52.4	29.9	31.5	31.7	29.5	26.0	30.9
Brockhill	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bronzefield	Contracted out	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.0	0.0
Buckley Hall	Public	0.0	0.0	11.0	13.8	8.5	14.6	18.3	11.4
Bullingdon	Public	21.0	21.3	17.9	30.9	35.3	27.8	37.7	42.1
Bullwood Hall	Public	3.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.6	4.3	0.0	0.0
Camp Hill	Public	24.4	30.0	22.0	40.9	51.7	47.2	21.6	21.6
Canterbury	Public	77.8	78.0	70.2	74.2	80.5	81.8	79.4	75.2
Cardiff	Public	67.9	72.2	67.4	76.6	79.2	79.5	69.2	65.3
Castington	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Channings Wood	Public	37.7	37.8	17.2	2.3	6.5	6.0	5.6	6.9
Chelmsford	Public	9.3	16.4	20.3	17.9	51.0	45.3	43.8	46.8
Coldingley	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.6	8.6
Cookham Wood	Public	49.1	37.1	36.3	34.9	29.2	47.0	38.2	42.9
Dartmoor	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.5	8.4	6.9	6.9
Deerbolt	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Doncaster	Contracted out	58.7	54.1	60.4	58.6	29.4	93.9	57.5	59.3
Dorchester	Public	71.0	64.9	54.2	59.1	73.5	76.2	76.1	75.2
Dovegate	Contracted out	—	—	—	0.0	1.0	7.1	7.2	5.1
Dover	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Downview	Public	9.4	9.5	9.7	6.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Drake Hall	Public	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Durham	Public	59.5	59.8	57.1	50.1	50.9	50.7	64.9	67.7
East Sutton Park	Public	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Eastwood Park	Public	6.6	14.0	15.8	16.8	16.8	15.7	13.9	12.4
Edmunds Hill	Public	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.0	0.0	0.0
Elmley	Public	42.8	43.6	24.1	25.8	47.7	53.5	55.0	54.9
Erlestoke	Public	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3	4.1	5.4	5.3	5.2
Everthorpe	Public	13.9	13.9	1.2	13.9	13.6	13.7	12.9	18.4
Exeter	Public	84.6	80.3	69.4	64.9	72.5	35.7	64.8	54.5
Featherstone	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.9	3.8	3.6	3.9
Feltham	Public	3.0	5.6	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ford	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Forest Bank	Contracted out	n/a	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.5	11.6	24.2
Foston Hall	Public	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Frankland	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Full Sutton	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Garth	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	11.3	4.0	5.1	3.3
Gartree	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
Glen Parva	Public	29.5	35.4	26.6	55.6	53.2	48.2	42.0	44.2
Gloucester	Public	54.7	61.9	51.6	57.7	60.7	55.3	64.6	52.5
Grendon/Spring Hill	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Guys Marsh	Public	8.7	12.5	12.2	12.5	14.1	12.7	11.7	13.4
Haslar	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haverigg	Public	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.1	2.2	1.9	2.3	2.5
Hewell Grange	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
High Down	Public	41.3	24.5	17.6	22.3	26.7	37.5	36.9	38.6
Highpoint	Public	6.1	0.5	0.0	2.2	5.3	6.1	5.4	3.9
Hindley	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	1.8	0.0	0.0
Hollesley Bay	Public	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Holloway	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2
Holme House	Public	7.6	11.5	0.0	9.4	21.9	21.0	26.1	26.9
Hull	Public	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	48.1	42.9	46.9	51.3
Huntercombe	Public	4.5	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kingston	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kirkham	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kirklevington	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lancaster	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	38.2	66.5	68.6	69.5
Lancaster Farms	Public	12.7	8.6	5.3	11.0	10.4	9.3	9.5	11.3
Latchmere House	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Leeds	Public	44.9	51.4	68.5	73.5	74.6	75.1	74.5	74.3
Leicester	Public	80.0	82.3	77.2	84.6	89.2	88.0	86.0	86.2
Lewes	Public	6.6	6.7	7.3	6.0	21.3	29.0	27.7	29.8
Leyhill	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lincoln	Public	68.0	64.4	64.3	63.4	59.6	68.0	69.8	68.2
Lindholme	Public	5.9	5.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	7.1
Littlehey	Public	7.5	6.9	6.4	4.8	10.2	10.4	13.1	10.7
Liverpool	Public	30.6	29.5	27.9	32.2	32.3	34.6	32.4	29.6
Long Lartin	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Low Newton	Public	83.3	25.3	28.9	28.3	30.8	28.8	25.1	24.4
Lowdham Grange	Contracted out	0.0	3.2	1.2	0.0	3.8	7.6	5.1	3.7
Maidstone	Public	7.3	15.5	15.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	21.0	4.1
Manchester	Public	35.5	33.7	25.6	48.7	57.4	56.3	55.6	54.0
Moorland	Public	5.9	5.5	6.2	6.1	7.1	5.8	5.5	5.7
Morton Hall	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mount	Public	11.2	1.6	2.0	11.0	12.7	13.5	7.2	0.8
New Hall	Public	16.7	16.2	16.5	17.3	16.6	12.5	7.7	10.8
North Sea Camp	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northallerton	Public	87.7	95.7	75.6	69.6	62.0	62.4	70.4	65.7
Norwich	Public	19.7	32.3	36.1	47.0	54.4	52.8	53.4	54.5
Nottingham	Public	0.0	0.0	24.7	45.5	57.0	56.7	62.1	54.9
Onley	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Parc	Contracted out	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.5	16.8
Parkhurst	Public	8.0	4.8	5.1	0.2	0.0	8.1	6.5	6.1
Pentonville	Public	33.9	39.4	33.8	31.0	34.3	36.8	40.1	37.7
Peterborough	Contracted out	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.0
Portland	Public	16.0	25.8	23.5	8.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Preston	Public	79.6	79.7	81.0	79.9	92.5	91.4	90.2	93.5
Ranby	Public	20.9	19.7	11.0	11.7	15.7	20.0	16.2	23.0
Reading	Public	60.9	65.4	61.5	65.8	67.2	67.7	68.1	68.7
Risley	Public	8.5	8.5	0.0	3.6	6.9	4.7	5.5	7.5
Rochester	Public	0.0	0.0	3.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rye Hill	Contracted out	n/a	n/a	0.0	0.0	32.4	22.1	10.4	0.0
Send	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shepton Mallet	Public	47.3	18.6	37.9	12.0	33.0	35.3	33.2	22.4
Shrewsbury	Public	89.2	0.0	48.6	86.6	91.1	89.6	81.2	81.0
Stafford	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.1	62.1	55.4	58.7
Standford Hill	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Stocken	Public	7.8	5.1	4.8	8.3	9.0	8.4	8.5	8.5
Stoke Heath	Public	0.0	0.0	7.8	3.4	28.4	27.6	23.7	23.8
Styal	Public	0.0	5.4	7.1	10.1	21.7	7.0	17.0	18.9
Sudbury	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.2	0.0
Swaleside	Public	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.4	3.1	3.2	3.0	4.5
Swansea	Public	67.8	65.0	68.9	60.1	77.6	71.6	68.8	67.3
Swinfen Hall	Public	13.5	13.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thorn Cross	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Usk·Prescoed	Public	50.6	51.1	52.2	54.0	55.2	51.3	54.8	54.4
Verne	Public	6.8	6.1	5.1	6.4	10.0	9.7	9.2	11.1
Wakefield	Public	5.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wandsworth	Public	28.9	33.3	32.7	37.2	46.5	58.9	58.3	73.6
Warren Hill	Public	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wayland	Public	6.9	4.9	5.7	6.5	11.0	11.9	10.9	11.6
Wealstun	Public	1.6	1.7	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
Wellingborough	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.3	0.0
Werrington	Public	0.0	0.0	12.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wetherby	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.7	0.0
Whatton	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.0	10.4	22.7
Whitemoor	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Winchester	Public	43.7	53.1	28.4	49.0	54.7	59.7	60.0	59.2
Wolds	Contracted out	0.0	0.0	0.0	17.2	0.0	0.0	22.3	0.5
Woodhill	Public	13.6	15.2	16.8	13.9	24.4	35.1	31.3	34.6
Wormwood Scrubs	Public	34.3	53.1	0.0	1.0	7.4	10.2	8.5	10.0
Wymott	Public	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0	4.0	3.3	3.8
Contracted out total		24.5	27.4	26.1	23.0	23.0	34.1	26.1	25.0
Public total		19.6	19.6	16.8	18.2	23.4	22.9	23.7	23:8
Prison Estate total		19.9	20.0	17.5	18.6	23.4	24.0	23.9	23.9

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

44343; 441 c2366-70W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Private sector Prisoners Prisons Public sector Overcrowding

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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