Life Imprisonment: Open Prisons
Commons · Question 127609 · Tabled 15 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with at least one life sentence have been transferred to open prison conditions in each year since 2020, broken down by offence.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 24 Apr 2026
To answer the question would incur disproportionate cost as it would require a search of individual prisoner records. Centrally-collated data on prisoner transfers cover transfers between a predominant function closed prison and a predominant function ope...