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...