Old Measures Lead To New Bars

7th March 2000

The UK prison population could rise from 67,800 to 80,300 within the next seven years according to latest Home Office figures released at the beginning of Feb.

Continuing his Tory predecessor's legacy of incarceration measures, Jack Straw's accent on punishment has meant that three new prisons are now planned to cope with the numbers with further extension work to be carried out on existing prisons.