Overcrowding
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Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA): 539
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Population: 502
Brinsford is a Category B/C adult men and Young Offenders Institution and remand centre near Wolverhampton. It was intended to accommodate 18 to 25 year olds, but this has been temporarily increased to 29 year olds to help ease population pressures. It sits on the same site as Featherstone and Oakwood prisons.
Read Brinsford’s latest inspection report here.
About this information
Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA) is the prison service’s own measure of how many prisoners can be held in decent and safe accommodation. Any occupancy above CNA means that the prison in question is overcrowded.
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