Prisoners' Release: Health
(asked on 10th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prisoners serving (1) determinate, and (2) indeterminate, sentences have been granted compassionate release from prison on the grounds of ill-health in each year since 2019.
This question was answered on 25th January 2024
The number of prisoners granted compassionate release under the Early Release on Compassionate Grounds policy is as follows:
Year | Indeterminate releases | Determinate releases |
2019 | 1 | 10 |
2020 | 2 | 11 |
2021 | 2 | 9 |
2022 | 0 | 1 |
2023 (to end June) | 0 | 1 |
- Please note that the data for 2023 is up to and including June 2023 as data from July 2023 are a subset of data which are due for future publication as part of Offender Management Statistics Quarterly.
- The figures in these tables 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.