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Prisons: Discipline

Commons · Question 3485 · Tabled 20 May 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 1 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison rules were broken in prisons in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many individual prisoners broke (a) over 50 and (b) at least one rule in that time.

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 1 Jun 2026

Where it is discovered that a prisoner has broken the prison rules, prison staff can respond in several ways including by placing a prisoner on report for an adjudication, issuing an incentive level warning or undertaking an incentive review where a priso...