Prisoners: Finance

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what arrangements are in place with HM Prisons and Probation Service to hold funds on behalf of prisoners during periods in custody.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 24th October 2017

In accordance with the Prison Rules, whilst in custody prisoners are not allowed to have money on their person. Prisoners are allowed to receive and spend money within laid down rules and are also paid earnings for some of the activities they do. The central offender management system, known as Prison-NOMIS records all receipts, payments and balance information for prisoners in public sector prisons. Each private sector establishments operates their own offender management system outside of Prison-NOMIS but they must adhere to Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 01/2012 ‘Managing Prisoner Finance’.

Offenders in Approved Premises under the National Probation Service are permitted to physically hold funds. If a request is submitted by the offender for the funds to be held by the Approved Premises this will be facilitated.

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