Prisoners
(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners there were in (a) HMP Belmarsh, (b) HMP Feltham, (c) HMP Isis, (d) HMP Pentonville, (e) HMP Thameside, (f) HMP Wandsworth and (g) HMP Wormwood Scrubs on 1 March (i) 2010 and (ii) 2015; and how many such prisoners were (A) Muslim and (B) foreign nationals.
We believe that foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity. That's why this Government has toughened the system, including by pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.
The Home Office have removed 22,000 foreign offenders since 2010 and this Government is removing 300 offenders under new 'deport first, appeal later' powers, with another 500 going through the system. We have cut the grounds on which criminals can appeal deportation.
Data in the exact format requested is not available but the table below sets out the information requested for each prison at the closest available dates.
| 31 March 2010 | 31 December 2014 (1) |
HMP BELMASH |
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Prison population | 862 | 881 |
Foreign National Prisoners | 166 | 217 |
Muslim prisoners | 127 | 265 |
HMYOI FELTHAM |
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|
Prison population | 657 | 550 |
Foreign National Prisoners | 179 | 82 |
Muslim prisoners | 211 | 187 |
HMP ISIS (2) |
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|
Prison population | --- | 620 |
Foreign National Prisoners | --- | 81 |
Muslim prisoners | --- | 261 |
HMP PENTONVILLE |
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|
Prison Population | 1,216 | 1,309 |
Foreign National Prisoners | 357 | 393 |
Muslim prisoners | 267 | 379 |
HMP THAMESIDE (3) |
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|
Prison population | --- | 894 |
Foreign National Prisoners | --- | 237 |
Muslim prisoners | --- | 242 |
HMP WANDSWORTH |
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Prison population | 1,631 | 1,623 |
Foreign National Prisoners | 572 | 582 |
Muslim prisoners | 330 | 364 |
HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS |
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|
Prison population | 1,298 | 1,188 |
Foreign National Prisoners | 447 | 441 |
Muslim Prisoners | 305 | 343 |
1) The latest date for which data is available.
2) HMP Isis opened in July 2010.
3) HMP Thameside opened in March 2012, and became fully operational in Autumn 2012.
The figures in these tables 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.