Prisoners: Females

(asked on 18th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to Question 137612 on Prisoners: Females, how many of the 2,271 sentenced women in prison for non-violent crimes received sentences of (a) less than 1 month, (b) less than 3 months, (c) less than 6 months, (d) less than 12 months, and (e) 12 months or more.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

Pursuant to the answer to Question 137612, the number of women held in custody for non-violent crimes as at 31 March 2018, disaggregated according to sentence length is given below.

Sentenced female prison population by sentence length, non-violent crimes

31/03/2018

Less than 1 month

12

1 month to less than 3 months

110

3 months to less than 6 months

177

6 months to less than 12 months

170

12 months or more

1536

Indeterminate sentence

37

Recalls

181

Sentence length not recorded

48

Total

2271

Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.

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