Reoffenders: Prisons
Commons · Question 21740 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Josh Babarinde
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders perpetrated further crimes in prison in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, and (c) 2024.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 13 Jan 2025
Data relating to crimes committed in prison are held in HMPPS’s police referral and adjudications records. To be able to identify all such cases, it would be necessary to review all potentially relevant records, and this could not be done without incurrin...