Prisoners: Compensation
(asked on 23rd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compensation claims against prison staff were made by prisoners in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2016
NOMS defend robustly all claims brought and successfully defend two thirds of claims brought by prisoners. It is not possible accurately to separate prisoner compensation claims against prison staff from other similar claims (e.g. assaults by other prisoners).