Prison population on remand: record highs and lows
The extremes of prison population on remand as published by Ministry of Justice, across the 13 periods held here (June 2025 to June 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.
Highest published
17,947August 2025
Lowest published
15,300May 2026
The full series
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A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.