The Government have announced a programme to provide an additional 20,000 prison places and increase overall capacity to just over 96,000 by 2014. The programme has already provided 2,162 places, and will provide a further 2,409 places this year.
On the Isle of Wight we delivered 40 places at HM Prison Albany last month and around 28 places are scheduled for delivery at HM Prison Parkhurst in July.