From BBC UK today: There are fewer than 100 available spaces left across the male prison estate in England and Wales, the BBC understands.1 There are currently 8 348 prisoners in Scotland’s prisons.2 From Audit Scotland in December 2023: SPS has advised that as at November 2023 the extended operating capacity that the prison estate can accommodate is 8,475.3 So, 127 places still available for a population only one eleventh of the population of England and Wales. They should have at least 1 400 but have ‘less than 100’, only a fourteenth! Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rw48nj282o https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-prison-population-justice-secretary-statement/#:~:text=However%2C%20with%20the%20population%20having,populations%20ever%20recorded%20in%20Scotland. https://audit.scot/uploads/docs/report/2023/s22_231212_scottish_prison_service.pdf (14) Discover more from … Continue reading Scottish prisons have 14 times, per head, the spare capacity of those in England and Wales