Prisons: Drugs
Commons · Question 75248 · Tabled 4 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 12 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of automatically transferring prisoners in open prisons who fail drugs tests to Category C prisons.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 12 Sep 2025
Prisoners held in open conditions can be re-categorised to higher security conditions at any time if their risk increases, if there is a material change in circumstances that impacts security risk, or information (including existing information not consid...