Prison Sentences
(asked on 15th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) women, and (2) men, currently serving indeterminate prison sentences have exceeded the tariff relating to the crime for which they were originally convicted.
The following table gives the unreleased IPP and life sentence prison population as at 31 March 2019 as well as showing how many prisoners, in each sentence category and according to gender, remain in custody beyond the expiry of their original tariff or are still serving their tariff period.
| IPP | Life |
Total population | 2,403 | 7,038 |
Post-tariff total | 2,198 | 1,784 |
Post-tariff male | 2,155 | 1756 |
Post-tariff female | 43 | 28 |
Pre-tariff total | 204 | 5,041 |
Pre-tariff male | 204 | 4,780 |
Pre-tariff female | 0 | 261 |
Tariff expiry date not available* | 1 | 213 |
* Includes cases where a confirmed tariff expiry date has yet to be received and any unmatched records. As with any large-scale recording system, administrative IT systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.