Prisons: Discipline

(asked on 25th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adjudications were received by women in prison aged (1) 18 to 25, or (2) 26 years or older, for each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 9th June 2022

The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prison rule-breaking have consequences. The Ministry of Justice monitors adjudication outcomes by offence, age, gender, ethnicity, religion and adjudicator, this data is published quarterly and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.

The specific information requested can be found in the table attached. The information is provided by the age groupings of (1) 18-25 and (2) 26 and over, to provide full data to answer the question.

Number of adjudications outcomes for women and specific age group, 2012 - 2021, England and Wales

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Age

18-25

2,655

2,002

2,140

2,326

1,929

2,680

2,645

2,248

1,739

1,750

26 and over

4,720

4,589

4,996

5,667

6,348

7,817

8,834

8,720

6,450

6,034

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: PQ HL532, Prison NOMIS System, (Ministry of Justice; Data and Analysis, Directorate)

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