Prison Sentences
(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currently serving indeterminate prison sentences in the UK (except Scotland); and how many of those have now served longer than the maximum sentence for the offence for which they were convicted.
The number of people currently serving indeterminate prison sentences in England and Wales can be viewed in the table below.
Data on the number of people currently serving indeterminate prison sentences who have now served longer than the maximum sentence for the offence for which they were convicted is not routinely collected, so could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Table 1: Number of people currently service indeterminate prison sentences in England and Wales
On 30 September 2017 | |
Unreleased | 10,378 |
Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) | 3,162 |
Life (all variations) (1) | 7,216 |
Recalled | 1,177 |
Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) | 792 |
Life (all variations) (1) | 385 |
(1) Includes mandatory, discretionary, automatic life sentences and those relating to young adults and juveniles held in prison custody.