Prisoners' Release
(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 1st February 2022
Data on the number of prisoners who have been released is published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication by the Ministry of Justice.
The total number of prisoners who have been released in each of the last three years is given in the following table:
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Number released | 69,622 | 62,771 | 53,253 |