Interesting Facts

The UK government has announced plans to spend £85m building a secure college in Leicestershire that will hold up to 320 young people in custody.. (This should go under "sad facts", because it's in reaction to the number of deaths in custody over the last 10 years.  During that time, 163 young people under the age of 24 have killed themselves in prison in the UK The secure college is planned to be the first step towards several other so called "fortified schools" that will eventually cater for the vast majority of young offenders.)

England has the highest rate of female imprisonment in the European Union.  ( According to statistics published by the Ministry of Justice, t he number of women jailed i n England has more than doubled over the past two decades to 4,144, but  many sentences are short, and in 2011 10,181 women were actually put behind bars.)