Prison Sentences and Reoffenders: Costs
Commons · Question 38680 · Tabled 17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Kim Johnson
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is for processing (a) a fixed term and (b) an emergency recall to prison.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 24 Mar 2025
The process of recalling an offender to custody, whether for a fixed-term or in an emergency, involves activity and administration on the part of the Probation Service (which requests recall); officials in HM Prison and Probation Service (who revoke the o...