Sentence examples for prisons numbers from inspiring English sources

Women almost never scare us; commit random acts of serious violence; violate our sexual integrity; or form organised crime networks and yet their prisons numbers are now the highest in recorded history.

The over-60s are now the fastest growing age group in prisons – numbers increased by 146% between 2002 and 2014 – and their social care needs, no different to those of older people outside prison, may be exacerbated by their surroundings.

His successor, Chris Grayling has already indicated that he intends to take a hard line on prisoners and sees no problem with increased prison numbers.

Despite the efforts of numerous prison reform groups and prisoner rehabilitation charities over the past 20 years or so, prison numbers have continued to rise while prison conditions have deteriorated.

And sometimes they did things like they could switch prisoner identities, when you had big camps that we're focused on prison numbers.

In 30 years prison numbers have doubled.

Prison numbers are soaring in Turkey and Italy.

Indeterminate sentences swelled prison numbers too.

We have seen an unparalleled expansion in prison numbers.

I never set a target on reducing prison numbers.

Yet prison numbers have risen to record levels.