Prisoners and Prison Officers: Coronavirus
(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many tests for covid-19 his Department has supplied to (a) prisoners and (b) prison officers who have presented as being asymptomatic.
The Government has put robust measures in place to protect staff and offenders from COVID-19 and introduce ‘compartmentalisation’, to isolate those prisoners with symptoms, shield the vulnerable and quarantine new arrivals.
Overall, prisons are seeing a decline in the numbers of new cases. The data in the table below shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases broken down by prison as of Friday 12 June 2020. These figures reflect the total number of recorded positive cases of COVID-19 since the first confirmed cases in mid-March, not the number of live cases. It includes individuals that have recovered.
The numbers reported will be affected by a number of variables, including the availability of testing locally which can result in differences between sites and regions and as self-reported (for staff) through HMPPS management lines for central collation. As figures are as reported by prisons they may be subject to revision.
To date the Ministry of Justice has not collected data on asymptomatic prisoners and staff as it is not the government policy to test asymptomatic cases.
Establishment | Staff Cases | Prisoner Cases | Total Number of Cases by Establishment |
Altcourse | 24 | 15 | 39 |
Ashfield | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Askham Grange | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Aylesbury | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Bedford | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Belmarsh | 12 | 7 | 19 |
Berwyn | 33 | 40 | 73 |
Birmingham | 22 | ~ | ~ |
Brinsford | 22 | 5 | 27 |
Bristol | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Brixton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Bronzefield | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Buckley Hall | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Bullingdon | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Bure | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Cardiff | 24 | 22 | 46 |
Channings Wood | 15 | 9 | 24 |
Chelmsford | 10 | ~ | ~ |
Coldingley | 5 | ~ | ~ |
Cookham Wood | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Dartmoor | ~ | ~ | 4 |
Deerbolt | 8 | ~ | ~ |
Doncaster | 12 | 8 | 20 |
Dovegate | 8 | ~ | ~ |
Downview | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Drake Hall | 25 | 41 | 66 |
Durham | 46 | 4 | 50 |
East Sutton Park | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eastwood Park | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Elmley | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Erlestoke | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Exeter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Featherstone | ~ | ~ | 5 |
FelthamA | ~ | ~ | ~ |
FelthamB | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Ford | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Forest Bank | 4 | 5 | 9 |
Foston Hall | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Frankland | 12 | ~ | ~ |
Full Sutton | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Garth | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Gartree | 25 | 9 | 34 |
Grendon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guys Marsh | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hatfield | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Haverigg | ~ | 6 | ~ |
Hewell | 37 | 9 | 46 |
High Down | 14 | ~ | ~ |
Highpoint | 12 | ~ | ~ |
Hindley | 10 | ~ | ~ |
Hollesley Bay | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Holme House | 23 | 17 | 40 |
Hull | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Humber | 41 | 10 | 51 |
Huntercombe | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Isis | 4 | 6 | 10 |
Isle of Wight | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Kirkham | 5 | ~ | ~ |
Kirklevington Grange | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Lancaster Farms | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Leeds | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Leicester | 6 | 5 | 11 |
Lewes | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Leyhill | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lincoln | ~ | 4 | ~ |
Lindholme | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Littlehey | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Liverpool | 20 | ~ | ~ |
Long Lartin | ~ | ~ | 5 |
Low Newton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Lowdham Grange | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Maidstone | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Manchester | 19 | 20 | 39 |
Medway (Adult) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moorland | ~ | ~ | ~ |
New Hall | ~ | 5 | ~ |
North Sea Camp | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Northumberland | 14 | ~ | ~ |
Norwich | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Nottingham | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Oakwood | 25 | 19 | 44 |
Onley | 16 | 7 | 23 |
ParcA | ~ | 0 | ~ |
ParcB | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Pentonville | 15 | 4 | 19 |
Peterborough Female | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peterborough Male | 16 | ~ | ~ |
Portland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Prescoed | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Preston | 43 | 16 | 59 |
Ranby | 7 | 5 | 12 |
Risley | 20 | 16 | 36 |
Rochester | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rye Hill | 6 | ~ | ~ |
Send | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Stafford | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Stanford Hill | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Stocken | 4 | ~ | ~ |
Stoke Heath | ~ | 4 | ~ |
Springhill | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Styal | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Sudbury | ~ | ~ | 4 |
Swaleside | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Swansea | 10 | 12 | 22 |
Swinfen Hall | 5 | 6 | 11 |
Thameside | 4 | 10 | 14 |
The Mount | 9 | 5 | 14 |
The Verne | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Thorn Cross | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Usk | 13 | 16 | 29 |
Wakefield | ~ | ~ | 6 |
Wandsworth | ~ | 11 | ~ |
Warren Hill | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wayland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wealstun | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Werrington | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wetherby | ~ | 0 | ~ |
Whatton | 0 | ~ | ~ |
Whitemoor | 10 | 6 | 16 |
Winchester | 23 | ~ | ~ |
Woodhill | 23 | 0 | 23 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 14 | 6 | 20 |
Wymott | 14 | 15 | 29 |
Total estate wide | 963 | 495 | 1458 |
The symbol ~ denotes suppressed values of 3 or fewer (and totals that would allow values of 3 or fewer to be calculated) to avoid the risk of identifying individuals.
*Data is split between Feltham A and Feltham B to account for different age groups
**Data is split between Parc A and B to account for different age groups
***Data is split for male and female sites at Peterborough
The tables below show the number of prisoners and prison staff who have sadly died having tested positive for COVID-19 or having shown symptoms. It is a matter for coroners to determine a cause of death. The data in the tables is correct as of Friday 12 June 2020.
Establishment | Number of prisoner deaths |
HMP/YOI Altcourse | 2 |
HMP/YOI Bedford | 1 |
HMP/YOI Belmarsh | 1 |
HMP Berwyn | 1 |
HMP Channings Wood | 2 |
HMP Durham | 1 |
HMP Gartree | 1 |
HMP Leicester | 1 |
HMP Littlehey | 3 |
HMP/YOI Low Newton | 1 |
HMP/YOI Manchester | 1 |
HMP/YOI New Hall | 1 |
HMP Oakwood | 1 |
HMP/YOI Peterborough | 1 |
HMP Rye Hill | 1 |
HMP/YOI Sudbury | 1 |
HMP Usk | 1 |
HMP Whatton | 1 |
HMP Winchester | 1 |
Total | 23 |
Establishment | Number of prison staff deaths |
HMP Dovegate | 1 |
HMP/YOI Hollesley Bay | 1 |
HMP/YOI Manchester | 1 |
HMP/YOI Pentonville | 2 |
HMP Thameside | 1 |
HMP Usk | 1 |
HMP/YOI Wymott | 2 |
Total | 9 |