To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 13 January 2016 to Question 20908, on prisons: discipline, how many days were added in each prison establishment as a result of adjudications in 2015.
Answered on
27 May 2016
The number of awards of additional days and the number of days given in each prison establishment as a result of adjudications in 2015 can be found in Table 1 attached. For context, the total number of awards and days given in the last 5 years can be found in Table 2 below.
Table 2 – Number of instances and days of additional days for all prison establishments (1,2), England and Wales, 2010 - 2015 | ||||||||
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |||
Number of awards where additional days were given | 13,788 | 8,690 | 9,537 | 9,125 | 10,265 | 13,000 | ||
Number of days for which additional days were given(2) | ||||||||
247,630 | 147,869 | 153,253 | 134,672 | 156,070 | 215,348 | |||
1 - Figures relate to all proven adjudications and include suspended and prospective punishments | ||||||||
2 - Figures correspond to the sum of the number of days given for each punishment received after an incident of misbehaviour. | ||||||||
If an offender receives 2 punishments as a result of an assault against a prison officer and each punishment attracts 20 days, | ||||||||
then the offender will have received a total of 40 days of additional days | ||||||||
Data Sources and Quality | ||||||||
These figures 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. | ||||||||