Prison Sentences
(asked on 9th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are in prison serving (1) a life sentence, (2) an Extended Determinate Sentence, and (3) an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence, by ethnicity.
The number of prisoners serving Extended Determinate Sentences, Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences, and Life sentences, by ethnicity, as at 30 September 2021, in England and Wales, is shown in the following table:
| Extended Determinate Sentence | Imprisonment for Public Protection | Life Sentence |
Asian or Asian British | 365 | 84 | 591 |
Black or Black British | 794 | 216 | 1,187 |
Mixed | 308 | 66 | 356 |
Other ethnic group | 83 | 5 | 71 |
White | 4,700 | 1,285 | 4,738 |
Not stated | 15 | 3 | 20 |
Unrecorded | 9 | 2 | 8 |
Note: These figures do not include recalled prisoners |
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Data sources and quality |
The figures in this table 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 |
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Statistics on the ethnicity of the prison population are routinely published as part of the quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly |