Prisons: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were charged with a serious crime committed while they were in prison in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 20th November 2014

Police, prisons and CPS work closely together at the local level to ensure that there is an effective criminal justice response to crimes in prison. The recently announced protocol on the appropriate handling of crime in prison is designed to ensure that there is greater consistency in approach across different regions.

It is not possible to identify from centrally held data, the number of prisoners proceeded against since 2010 in respect of a serious crime committed whilst in custody. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by asking individual prisons to liaise with police forces and examine their records for the period in question.

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