Prison Service

(asked on 27th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff from which prisons were dismissed for conducting inappropriate relationships with prisoners in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
This question was answered on 6th November 2014

The definition of an inappropriate relationship is any relationship with prisoners, ex prisoners, partners, immediate family or close associates involved in criminal activities if not formally declared to the Governor or Head of NOMS unit as a potential ‘Conflict of Interest’. The information setting out how many prison staff were dismissed from each establishment solely for having an inappropriate relationship with a Prisoner(s)* is set out in the tables below:

2010

Prison

Number of Dismissals

HMYOI Aylesbury

1

HMP&YOI Brinsford

1

HMYOI Feltham

2

HMP Highpoint

1

HMP Leicester

1

HMP Maidstone

1

HMP Send

1

HMP Wandsworth

1

HMPYOI Warren Hill

1

HMP Wormwood Scrubs

2

TOTAL

12

2011

Prison

Number of Dismissals

HMP Acklington

1

HMP Coldingley

1

HMP Dorchester

1

HMP Downview

2

HMP Full Sutton

1

HMP Garth

1

HMP& YOI Isis

1

HMP Lindholme

1

HMP Morton Hall

1

HMP Pentonville

2

HMP Preston

1

HMYOI Rochester

1

TOTAL

14

2012

Prison

Number of Dismissals

HMP Blantyre House

1

HMP Brixton

2

HMP Durham

1

HMP Hewell

2

HMP Holloway

1

HMP Lincoln

1

HMP Send

1

HMP Wellingborough

1

HMYOI Wetherby

1

TOTAL

11

2013

Prison

Number of Dismissals

HMP Downview

1

HMP Erlestoke

1

HMP Frankland

1

HMP High Down

1

HMP Holloway

1

HMP Hull

1

HMP Liverpool

1

HMP Long Lartin

1

HMP New Hall

1

HMP Northumberland

1

HMYOI Portland

1

HMP Preston

1

HMP Wandsworth

1

HMPYOI Warren Hill

1

HMP Whatton

1

TOTAL

15

*The information provided has been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.

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