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<p>As part of prison reform, the long-term goal is to reduce crowding, while maintaining
sufficient capacity in the prison estate to manage the demands of the courts and the
sentenced population as efficiently as possible. This level is kept under constant
review, considering fluctuations in the prison population and useable capacity across
the estate. Prison governors ensure that the level of operational capacity is set
to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation and the operation of suitable
regimes and that levels of crowding in prisons are carefully managed.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government is committed to delivering up to 10,000 decent uncrowded prison places
providing the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training
and rehabilitative outcomes. We will reform and modernise our prison estate, starting
with the construction of two new 1,680-place prisons at the former HM Prison and Young
Offender Institution Glen Parva and former HM Prison Wellingborough as well as a new
houseblock at HM Prison Stocken which will create 206 modern prison places and is
expected to open in early 2019. In July 2018, The Verne, a former HM Prison and Probation
Service operated immigration removal centre in Dorset, reopened as a prison and can
hold up to 580 offenders.</p>
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