FACTBOX-Lord Carter's review of prisons

LONDON (Reuters) - The government on Wednesday published a report on the future of prisons in England and Wales by life peer Lord Carter.

Here are some details of its findings and recommendations:

- The prison population will rise to more than 100,000 by 2014 from about 81,500 today -- just a few hundred short of existing jail capacity -- unless the government takes measures to reduce inmate numbers.

- The rise in the jail population can be limited to around 95,500 by restricting the use of indeterminate prison sentences to the most serious offenders, allowing all non-violent prisoners release after they have served half their sentence (as is already the case for those sentenced after April 2005) and other measures.

- That still requires a faster expansion of prison places than the 9,500 extra currently promised by 2012.

- As a result, the government will add a further 10,500 new spaces by 2014 at a cost of 1.2 billion pounds, although it will lose around 5,000 places by shutting older, smaller jails. It plans to have over 96,000 prison places available by 2014.

- In the short term the government will convert a former Ministry of Defence site in Norfolk into a low-risk jail and turn the open jail part of Wealstun prison in West Yorkshire into a closed prison. It is also looking to secure a prison ship.

- By 2012 the government plans to open the first of three supersize "Titan" jails, each holding around 2,500 prisoners, to replace small, ageing jails. The largest prison currently is Wandsworth in London, with around 1,500 inmates.

- The report recommends the jumbo jails be located near regions where there is the most demand for cells -- London, the West Midlands and the North West.

(Reporting by Tim Castle)