Prisoners: Females
(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of women in prison have been victims of (a) domestic violence and (b) sexual abuse.
This question was answered on 25th March 2015
Of the 2,309 women under sentence in custody at 31 March 2013 who had a formal offender management (OASys) assessment of sufficient quality, 1,401 (61%) were recorded as having volunteered that they had been victims of domestic abuse.
However, there is no equivalent question in OASys for sexual abuse and this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.