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Some 88,350 people were in prison as of 30 August , up 116 from 88,234 a week ago .
It is a jump of nearly 1,000 from four weeks ago and the highest end-of-week figure since 2011 .
It surpasses the highest number of prisoners England and Wales has ever recorded, which was 88,336 at the end of February 2024 .
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