Prisoners
(asked on 14th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how old the oldest prison inmate in England and Wales is.
Prison is the right place for serious, dangerous and persistent offenders. Since 2010, those who break the law are more likely to be sent to prison.
Over the last ten years the number of prisoners in England and Wales aged 60 and over has risen each year. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is working hard to ensure that prisons are equipped to meet the needs of this group, including through the commissioning of health and social care services.
The table below shows the population of prisoners by specified age groups in all prison establishments in England and Wales, from the most recent available data at the end of March 2014.
Providing information on a single individual that is personal and potentially disclosive, such as the age of the oldest prisoner in England and Wales, would be contrary to our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998. There were, however, five prisoners aged 90 or over as of 31 March 2014.
| Table 1: Prison population aged 60 and over, by age group, England and Wales, 31 March 2014. | ||||||
| Age | 31-Mar-14 | |||||
| 60-65 | 1,791 | |||||
| 66-70 | 967 | |||||
| 71-75 | 489 | |||||
| 76-80 | 228 | |||||
| Over age 80 | 102 | |||||
| Total aged 60 and over | 3,577 | |||||
| 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. | ||||||