Prisoners

(asked on 13th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of automatically providing contact details for local support workers on phones supplied to prisoners.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 21st October 2020

We work with offenders to support their rehabilitation, including signposting them to relevant services. Basic mobile telephones have been purchased as a temporary measure in order to maintain contact with offenders in the community who do not have access to a phone of their own, while they adhere to social distancing measures. The telephones are only capable of voice communication and text communication and do not have internet access.

We have considered the possibility of adding contact details to telephones, but have concluded that doing so would not be operationally practicable. The information would not be exhaustive and could not be easily updated. In addition, it would be labour intensive to provide information via this method.

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