Prisoners: Compensation
(asked on 25th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have received compensation for being assaulted by a fellow prisoner in each of the last three years, and if he will make a statement.
Year | Number of prisoners who have received damages for a prisoner on prisoner assault claim |
2016/17 | 42 |
2017/18 | 48 |
2018/19 | Figure unavailable as 2018/19 litigation data is still being verified. |
The figures in the table 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.
Violence in prisons remains unacceptably high but there are early signs that we are making progress. Eight of the jails involved in the ‘10 Prisons Project’ saw falls in the final quarter of 2018 – four of them by more than 25% - while the number of assaults across the estate reduced by 11%.
Across the prison estate we have invested an additional £70m in a raft of measures designed to improve safety, security and decency - including body-scanners, enhanced searches and new investigative teams - while the 4,700 additional staff we have recruited since October 2016 are making a real difference.
There are no plans for a further statement at this time.