Prisoners' Release
(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving IPP sentences have been released from each prison in each of the last eight years.
The table below shows the number of first releases from IPP sentences by establishment, England and Wales, 2015 – 2018. Please note that the releasing prison is not necessarily where risk reduction interventions have been undertaken. In many cases, prisoners may be transferred to participate in risk reduction work or other interventions, or moved nearer to their home area before release.
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Establishment | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
All | 562 | 576 | 616 | 506 |
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Altcourse | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Ashfield | * | * | * | * |
Askham Grange | * | * | 0 | * |
Aylesbury | 0 | * | 0 | 0 |
Bedford | 0 | * | 0 | * |
Belmarsh | * | * | * | 0 |
Berwyn | .. | .. | 0 | 7 |
Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | * |
Blantyre House | 4 | .. | .. | .. |
Bristol | 3 | * | * | * |
Brixton | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Bronzefield | * | 0 | * | * |
Buckley Hall | 7 | 11 | 6 | 4 |
Bullingdon | 5 | 7 | 10 | * |
Bure | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
Cardiff | * | 3 | * | * |
Channings Wood | * | 9 | * | * |
Chelmsford | 0 | 0 | * | * |
Coldingley | 3 | * | 4 | 5 |
Dartmoor | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Doncaster | * | * | * | 0 |
Dovegate | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
Downview | .. | 0 | 0 | * |
Drake Hall | * | * | * | * |
Durham | 4 | 5 | 3 | * |
East Sutton Park | * | * | 3 | * |
Eastwood Park | 0 | 0 | 0 | * |
Elmley (Sheppey cluster) | 11 | 5 | 17 | 10 |
Erlestoke | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
Exeter | 0 | * | 0 | 0 |
Featherstone | 7 | 12 | 6 | * |
Ford | 13 | 13 | 8 | 7 |
Forest Bank | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Foston Hall | 0 | * | * | * |
Frankland | 0 | 0 | 0 | * |
Full Sutton | 0 | 0 | 0 | * |
Garth | 0 | * | * | 0 |
Gartree | * | 0 | 7 | 3 |
Grendon/Spring Hill | 31 | 17 | 13 | 14 |
Guys Marsh | 4 | * | 5 | 4 |
Hatfield | 7 | 16 | 9 | 9 |
Haverigg | 8 | * | 4 | 0 |
Hewell | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 |
High Down | 0 | * | 4 | * |
Highpoint (North and South) | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 |
Hindley | 0 | 0 | * | 0 |
Hollesley Bay | 8 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
Holloway | 0 | * | .. | .. |
Holme House | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Hull | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
Humber | 7 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
Isle of Wight | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
Kennet | * | 0 | .. | .. |
Kirkham | 14 | 10 | 8 | 4 |
Kirklevington Grange | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Lancaster Farms | 5 | * | 7 | 4 |
Leeds | 4 | 4 | * | 0 |
Leicester | 0 | * | 4 | * |
Lewes | 9 | * | 4 | * |
Leyhill | 33 | 51 | 53 | 50 |
Lincoln | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Lindholme | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 |
Littlehey | 8 | 8 | 14 | 8 |
Liverpool | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
Long Lartin | * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Low Newton | 0 | * | 0 | 0 |
Lowdham Grange | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Maidstone | 6 | 0 | * | 0 |
Manchester | 4 | 5 | 3 | * |
Moorland | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Mount | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
New Hall | 4 | * | 3 | 0 |
North Sea Camp | 42 | 42 | 42 | 41 |
Northumberland | 16 | 12 | 12 | 7 |
Norwich | 5 | 7 | * | 3 |
Nottingham | 0 | 4 | * | 4 |
Oakwood | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 |
Onley | 4 | 3 | 4 | * |
Parc | 7 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
Pentonville | 0 | * | 0 | 3 |
Peterborough (Female) | * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peterborough (Male) | 0 | * | * | * |
Prescoed | 4 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
Preston | 0 | * | 0 | 0 |
Ranby | 7 | 9 | 11 | 11 |
Risley | 18 | 10 | 6 | 10 |
Rochester | 0 | * | * | * |
Rye Hill | 3 | * | * | * |
Send | * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stafford | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Standford Hill (Sheppey cluster) | 17 | 22 | 20 | 21 |
Stocken | 11 | 11 | 12 | 3 |
Stoke Heath | * | 3 | 3 | * |
Styal | 0 | 0 | * | 0 |
Sudbury | 5 | 14 | 13 | 7 |
Swaleside (Sheppey cluster) | 10 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
Swansea | 0 | 0 | * | * |
Swinfen Hall | * | 5 | * | * |
Thameside | * | * | * | * |
Thorn Cross | 12 | 11 | 6 | 11 |
Usk | 0 | 4 | * | 4 |
Wakefield | 0 | * | 3 | * |
Wandsworth | * | * | 0 | * |
Warren Hill | 4 | 22 | 37 | 17 |
Wayland | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 |
Wealstun | 10 | 6 | 7 | * |
Whatton | 14 | 12 | 22 | 22 |
Woodhill | * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wormwood Scrubs | * | 0 | * | 0 |
Wymott | 11 | 19 | 21 | 19 |
*An asterisk has been used to suppress values of two or less. This is to prevent the identification of individuals. Further disclosure control may be completed where this alone is not sufficient.
It is important to remember that prisoners serving IPP sentences have committed serious sexual or violent offences and remain in prison because the independent parole board have assessed their risk of serious harm to the public to be too great to warrant their release. Prisoners who have served their minimum tariff have their suitability for parole reviewed by the Parole Board at least every 2 years
Due to improvements in IT systems, detailed statistics are available from 2015 only and therefore
pre-2015 figures for releases from IPP sentences broken down by establishment have not been included.
Please note that:
HMP Blantyre House was temporarily taken out of use from January 2015
HMP Downview reopened in May 2016 after a period of refurbishment.
HMP Holloway closed in May 2016
HMP Kennet closed in December 2016
HMP Berwyn opened in February 2017
HMP Peterborough is a dual purpose prison for men and women.
'..' Indicates that the establishment was not in use during the entire period
As with any large-scale recording system, administrative IT systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Data provided is a further breakdown from table A3.1 of the Annual Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/796917/releases-2018.ods
The total number of first releases from IPP sentences for the years 2011 to 2014 are provided in the following table.
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
300 | 444 | 470 | 419 |