Prisoners: Older People
(asked on 25th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners aged 75 and over there were in each type of prison in (a) 2010 and (b) the latest period for which figures are available.
Over the last ten years the number of prisoners in England and Wales aged 75 and over has risen each year. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is working hard to ensure that prisons are equipped to meet the needs of this group, including through the commissioning of health and social care services.
The requested information is provided in the table below.
Prison population aged 75 years and over as at 31 March in year shown, | |||
England and Wales |
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Category | 2010 | 2014 |
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Cluster | 17 | 32 |
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Female closed | <5 | <5 |
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Female local | <5 | <5 |
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Male category B | 9 | 16 |
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Male category C | 83 | 187 |
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Male closed YOI(1) | <5 | <5 |
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Male dispersal | 17 | 18 |
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Male local | 73 | 129 |
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Male open | 6 | 14 |
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Semi open | <5 | <5 |
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Grand Total | 208 | 400 |
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1) People may be held in a prison which is predominantly for young offenders but |
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is dual registered to hold adults. |
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These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.