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<p>Individual prison population and capacity information for every prison in England
and Wales is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014"
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014</a></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Prisons are not expected to operate above their operational capacity
and ensuring that this capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent
accommodation and the operation of suitable regimes ensures that levels of crowding
in prisons are carefully managed.</p><p> </p><p>Sensible measures have been taken
to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in
population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent
way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population.</p><p>
</p><p>We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited,
more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees
than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.</p><p>
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