Prisoners

(asked on 17th July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people currently held in prison are serving sentences of one year or less.


Answered by
Lord Timpson Portrait
Lord Timpson
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 31st July 2024

As at 30 June 2024, prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales held 3,277 male and female prisoners serving sentences of one year or less.

Note:

The figure presented includes fine defaulters.

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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