Open Prisons
Commons · Question 75253 · 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, what the average length of time spent by prisoners in open prisons was in the last (a) 12 months, (b) three years and (c) five years.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 12 Sep 2025
Prisoners may be accommodated in more than one open prison during the course of a sentence. The data that would need to be collated to calculate the average length of time in open conditions is not held centrally and could not be obtained without incurrin...