HC Deb 16 February 1967 vol 741 cc147-8W
85. Mr. Robert Cooke

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average prison population in each of the years 1950 to 1966.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

The average total population of all prisons, borstals, detention centres and remand centres in England and Wales was as follows:

1950 … 20,474
1951 … 21,780
1952 … 23,680
1953 … 23,610
1954 … 22,421
1955 … 21,134
1956 … 20,807
1957 … 22,602
1958 … 25,379
1959 … 26,623
1960 … 27,099
1961 … 29,025
1962 … 31,063
1963 … 30,896
1964 … 29,600
1965 … 30,421
1966 (provisional) … 33,258