Prisoners' Release
Commons · Question 28466 · Tabled 9 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 14 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners who have assaulted a prison guard remain eligible for early release, and how many prisoners set to be released in the first ten tranches have previously assaulted a prison guard.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 14 Sep 2026
We punish prisoners who are violent towards staff by giving them penalties that can include adding days onto their sentence. We doubled the maximum number of additional days that Independent Adjudicators can impose for a single incident of behaviour from ...