Воркшем занял восьмое место в Уэльсе по числу заключенных: 170 человек на конец июня 2026 года

There were 170 people from Wrexham County Borough in prison at the end of June 2026, according to new figures published by HM Prison and Probation Service. The data, released this month as part of the annual Welsh Justice Data publication, counts prisoners by their home address rather than nationality, and covers every prison in England and Wales. Wrexham had the eighth highest count of the 22 local authority areas in Wales at the June snapshot. Cardiff topped the table with 1,369 prisoners, followed by Swansea on 876. Flintshire had the third highest figure in Wales at 319, ahead of larger population centres including Newport on 284 and Rhondda Cynon Taf on 244. Elsewhere in North Wales, Gwynedd had 146 people in custody, Conwy 119, Denbighshire 96 and the Isle of Anglesey 49. Ceredigion had the lowest count in Wales at 26. The Wrexham figure moved across the year covered by the release. There were 174 people from the county borough in prison at the end of September 2025, 178 at the end of December, and 191 at the end of March 2026 before the fall to 170 in June. The Wales-wide total followed a similar pattern. There were 4,887 prisoners with a Welsh home address at the end of June, down from a peak of 5,045 at the end of March. Of the 170 Wrexham prisoners at the June count, 95 were held at HMP Berwyn on the Industrial Estate. That is 56% of the total – the number of Wrexham men at Berwyn fell from 117 at the end of March. The rest were spread across dozens of prisons in England and south Wales. Six Wrexham men were at Stoke Heath in Shropshire, four at Parc in Bridgend, four at Rye Hill in Warwickshire, three at Altcourse in Liverpool and three at Risley in Cheshire. Counts of one or two prisoners are suppressed in the published tables to prevent individuals being identified, so the full spread cannot be totalled exactly. Berwyn itself held 736 prisoners with a Welsh home address at the end of June, alongside 1,173 with an English one. English prisoners have outnumbered Welsh prisoners at Berwyn at all four snapshot dates in the release. Among the Welsh contingent at Berwyn, Flintshire supplied the largest group at 199 men, more than double the 95 from Wrexham. Gwynedd accounted for 77, Conwy 76 and Cardiff 74. Five women from Wrexham were held at Styal prison in Cheshire at the end of June, the only women’s prison where a Wrexham figure appears in the published table. Wales has no women’s prison, and all 222 Welsh women in custody at the June count were held in England. Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire held the largest number at 131. The figures come with caveats – HMPPS said the data is drawn from address records and “cannot be used to infer nationality”, as Ministry of Justice systems record nationality only as British. Around 99% of prisoners have a recorded home address, and where none exists the address of the court that committed them is used instead. Prisons and sentencing are not devolved. They are run by the UK Government through the Ministry of Justice, and England and Wales operate as a single prison estate, which means someone from Wrexham can be held anywhere in it depending on their sentence, security category and the places available. Offence figures in the release are published for Wales as a whole rather than by county. This is the second year the figures have been published in this form, following calls from academics, the criminal justice charity Clinks and committees at both the Senedd and Westminster for Welsh justice data to be separated out. The House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee reported this year that the imprisonment rate in Wales has “consistently been shown” to be higher than in England. It recommended that the Ministry of Justice and the Welsh Government jointly commission a review into the reasons for that. The next annual release is due to be published on or after 29 July 2027, covering the four quarters to June 2027. The full ranking of all 22 Welsh council areas at the June 2026 count is below, with the equivalent figure from June 2025 for comparison. The counts are not adjusted for population, so larger areas sit naturally towards the top. Note! Figures count prisoners by their last recorded home address, not nationality or where they were sentenced, and exclude anyone with no recorded origin address, so the table cannot be compared directly with overall prison population statistics. The data only tells us so much…! Add Wrexham.com as a preferred source on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search.