Custodial Treatment: Wales

(asked on 2nd June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of sentenced women in each police force area in Wales were sentenced to immediate custody in each year since 2011.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 10th June 2015

Whilst crime is falling, since 2010 offenders are more likely to go to prison, and for longer. Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts taking into account all the circumstances of each case. In order to pass a custodial sentence the court must be satisfied that the offence is so serious that neither a fine alone nor a community order can be justified.

The number of people sentenced to immediate custody by gender, offence type and length of sentence, from 2010 to 2014, (the latest information available) in the North Wales police force area, can be viewed in table 1 and table 1A.

The proportion of women sentenced to immediate custody within Wales police force area, from 2010 to 2014 (the latest information available), can be viewed in the table 2.

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