Prisoners' Release
(asked on 21st April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released from custodial sentences on a Friday in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 26th April 2022
Data showing how many prisoners have been released from custodial sentences on a Friday in each of the last five years can be viewed in table 1 below.
Table 1: Releases from custodial sentences on a Friday, by year, 2016-2020, in England and Wales
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Friday Releases | 26,007 | 25,072 | 22,123 | 20,571 | 16,770 |
Source: Prison NOMIS | |||||