Reoffenders: Sentencing
(asked on 21st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) male, and (2) female, prisoners are currently in prison having been recalled, and are serving a custodial sentence of (a) less than 12 months, (b) between 12 months and two years, (c) between two and four years, (d) between four and five years, (e) between five and seven years, (f) between seven and 10 years, (g) between 10 and 14 years, and (h) 14 years or more.
The answer is given in the table below. In order to protect the public, offenders on licence are liable to be recalled to prison at any time if they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to demonstrate increased risk, such that the risk may no longer be effectively managed in the community.
Table 1: Recall prison population, by recorded sentence length(1) and sex, as at 30 Sep 2022; England & Wales | |||
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Total | 10,448 | 10,053 | 395 |
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Less than 12 months | 680 | 621 | 59 |
12 months to less than 2 years | 911 | 857 | 54 |
2 years to less than 4 years | 2,206 | 2,091 | 115 |
4 years to less than 5 years | 954 | 914 | 40 |
5 years to less than 7 years | 1,315 | 1,281 | 34 |
7 years to less than 10 years | 1,247 | 1,215 | 32 |
10 years to less than 14 years | 639 | 627 | 12 |
14 years or over | 243 | 239 | 4 |
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Other / Not Recorded(2) | 2,253 | 2,208 | 45 |
NOTES
(1) For recalled prisoners this should correspond with the original sentence length, but there may be cases for which this instead reflects the 'length of recall'
(2) This includes those recalled from indeterminate sentences who do not have a recorded sentence length.
Date Sources and Quality
The figures in these tables 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.
Source: prison-NOMIS (ref. PQ HL3589)