Ministry of Justice · prison name: Leicester
Prison population: Leicester
at 31 July 2026
279people
Prison population for Leicester was 279 people at 31 July 2026.
- Ministry of Justice dataset
- MonthlyBulletin
- Leicester
- column “Population *”
- 279 per period
- published 10 August 2026
What this measures
The number of prisoners held in each establishment in England and Wales on the last working Monday of the month, from the Ministry of Justice's monthly population bulletin.
Certified normal accommodation or operational capacity (published alongside but not extracted), or people on authorised absence separately from the population.
Source
- Dataset
- Prison population: monthly bulletin
- Release
- July 2026, published 10 August 2026 · sha256 3fa36fb19b9aa597…
- All values
- Prison population by prison name