Custodial Treatment: Discipline

(asked on 17th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on independent adjudicators in each public and private prison and young offenders institution in each month of (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 to date.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 22nd June 2015

Discipline Procedures are central to the maintenance of a safe custodial environment. They are provided for by the Prison and Young Offender Institution Rules which require adjudications to be conducted lawfully, fairly and justly, and for prisoners and young people (aged 15-17) to have a full opportunity to hear what is alleged against them and to present their case. Independent Adjudicators are District Judges or Deputy District Judges who attend establishments when necessary to hear prisoner adjudication cases which are deemed sufficiently serious and which may merit a punishment of additional days to a prisoner’s time spent in custody if the prisoner is found guilty.

Information on the number of adjudications by type of adjudicators (Governors or Independent Adjudicators) is not held centrally.

Offender Management Statistics are published periodically at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/424905/adjudications-2014.xls

Further details will be published in due course.

It is important to note that some incidences may have been committed at one establishment and punished at another.

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