Prisoners: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were BAME in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 9th February 2016
Some 21,917 prisoners (26% of the prison population) declared themselves BAME as at 31 December 2015, compared with 23,657 (28%) on 30 June 2010.