While women comprise only 5% of the total prison population, female prisoners account for a third of all incidents of self-harm.
The target is 3,000 fewer prisoners by 2015; Britain's total prison population is currently around 85,000.Mr Clarke says that prison is an expensive way of making criminals worse.
Yet the vast majority of Russian prisoners — 724,000 out of a total prison population of 862,000 — still live in freestanding barracks, rough-hewn, low-slung buildings of wood or brick encircled by barbed wire, usually in a remote place.
In Zambia, female inmates comprise approximately 1.5percentt of the total prison population, with an estimated 250 female prisoners incarcerated nationwide in March 2011 [ 3, 4].
But such prisoners accounted for only 4.6percentt of the total prison population in the United States in 2005, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.
In the early 21st century Hong Kong was unique in housing the largest proportion of female prisoners worldwide: more than 20 percent of the total prison population was female, compared with a global average of about 5 percent.
Remand prisoners awaiting trial make up just 10% of the total prison population.
Twelve prisons were included in the study, with a total of 7,221 prisoners representing 73% of the prisoners in the closed system and 59% of the total prison population in the state.
The state's total prison population is 71,233.
They make up 23% of the total prison population.
Over 50s now make up 13% of the total prison population.
