Claim: The prison population has doubled in 25 years.
Fact-check: The rising prison population - Full Fact
Verdict: it almost has, from 45,000 at the start of the 1990s to around 86,000 today in england and wales. prisons have been overcrowded almost constantly for the last two decades.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2016-02-08T00:00:00