Criminal Justice: Secure College Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Criminal Justice: Secure College

Lord Elystan-Morgan Excerpts
Tuesday 14th July 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Elystan-Morgan Portrait Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB)
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The Minister will know that for many years we have been incarcerating far more young people per 100,000 of the population than almost any other country in Europe. Do we still hold that unmeritorious accolade?

Lord Faulks Portrait Lord Faulks
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I am afraid that I cannot give the noble Lord the statistics off the top of my head. At the moment we certainly incarcerate something like 85,000 of the overall adult population. As I said, we have reduced the number of young people in prison, and I shall write to the noble Lord with the comparative figure in due course.