The prison estate of England and Wales, kept current.
Custelligence brings together what the government already publishes about every prison, young offender institution and immigration removal centre in England and Wales, and keeps it in one place. Where each establishment is, who runs it, how many people it holds and how that compares with the accommodation it is certified for. Nothing here is typed in by hand or kept up by memory: the database rebuilds itself every day from official sources, and every figure carries the date it was published. It exists so that researchers, families, journalists and practitioners can find in a minute what currently takes an afternoon of hunting through spreadsheets.
- Establishments
- 118
- People held
- 82,937
- Above certified accommodation
- 50
- Figures as at
- 30 Jun 2026
What you can open
Custody Map
Every establishment plotted, filterable by category, operator, who it holds and where. Each one opens onto contact details, capacity, occupancy over time and the inspection reports and announcements that name it.
Open the mapCustody Situation Room
Coming soonA live read on pressure across the estate: where crowding is worsening, which establishments are furthest above their certified accommodation, and how the picture has shifted since the last monthly release.
Custelligence is powered by the Centre for Forensic Hope.
The non-profit behind this work, focused on hope, desistance and identity change with people affected by offending and imprisonment — through research, training and direct practice.
Visit the CentreTake the data
Everything here is public sector information under the Open Government Licence, and it leaves the way it arrived. The full dataset is available as JSON at /api/prisons, and as GeoJSON for QGIS or Leaflet at /api/prisons?format=geojson. Every ingest run, including the ones that fail, is logged openly at feed status.