Prison Sentences
(asked on 5th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners currently serving public protection sentences have completed the tariff period set by their original sentence.
As at 31 March 2017, there were 3,528 prisoners serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). Of these, 542 were pre-tariff and 2,985 were post-tariff.
Data concerning IPP prisoners is published in the quarterly offender management statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
Table 1 shows the number of prisoners serving IPP sentences at prisons in Wales. This is also broken down to show the number of prisoners serving IPP sentences in HMP Cardiff and HMP Parc.
Table 1: Number of prisoners serving IPP sentences at prisons in Wales; as at 31 March 2017 |
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Total | 102 |
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HMP Cardiff | 7 |
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HMP Parc | 27 |
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The figures in this 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. |
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HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Parole Board will continue to work together to improve the progression of IPP prisoners. This group continue to achieve release in high numbers, with 576 first time IPP releases in 2016, the highest figure since the sentence was introduced.