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(1) HMP Holloway and YOI Holloway are recorded as one establishment.
| Lost or stolen security passes in each of the last three financial years at Pentonville and Holloway prisons | ||
| Establishment name | ||
| HMP/YOI Holloway( 1) | HMP Pentonville | |
| (1) HMP Holloway and YOI Holloway are recorded as one establishment. | ||
Sentencing: Young People
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) 16 to 18 year olds and (b) 18 to 21 year olds are currently serving custodial sentences; and what is the average length of sentence for each group. [232195]
Mr. Hanson: At the end of the August 2008 there were, 1,618 16 to 17-year-olds and 7,522 young adults serving custodial sentences in prison establishments in England and Wales.
The average length of sentence for:
(a) 16 to 17-year-olds serving a determinate sentence was 19 months;
(b) Young adults(1) serving a determinate sentence was 31 months.
The average lengths given here are longer than those for all sentenced offenders received into prison establishments. This is because the population of offenders in prison at any given time includes a larger proportion of those serving longer sentences.
The figures do not include juveniles held in secure training centres or secure children's homes
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
(1) Young adults are those aged 18 to 20 and those 21-year-olds who were aged 20 or under at conviction who have not been reclassified as part of the adult population.
Young Offender Institutions: Drugs
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of offenders in young offender institutions are dependent on at least one type of drug. [232196]
Mr. Hanson: Data on the number of prisoners in young offender institutions who are drug dependent are not recorded. Instead the National Offender Management Service relies on epidemiological research which has previously shown 76 per cent. of young male offenders aged 18-21 assessed (within a young offender institution) as being dependent on at least one drug.
Young Offender Institutions: Per Capita Costs
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average cost was of providing a place in a young offenders institution in the latest year for which figures are available. [232197]
Mr. Hanson: The average cost per annum of a place at a young offender institution for 2001-08 was £32,799. This will include the provision of juvenile places at sites where both young offenders and juveniles are detained, as we are unable except at disproportionate cost to split these costs. The costs include only direct prison costs and exclude overhead costs.
Young Offenders: Sentencing
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average length of sentence was for young offenders aged (a) 10 to 15, (b) 16 to 17 and (c) 18 to 20 years for offences (i) involving violence against a person, (ii) of a sexual nature, (iii) of burglary, (iv) of robbery and (v) involving drugs where a custodial sentence was handed down in each year since 1997. [231776]
Mr. Hanson: The requested information is contained in the following table. The figures are a further breakdown of statistics found in Table 2.17 of the Ministry of Justice statistical bulletin, ‘Sentencing Statistics 2006’. The 2007 data will be published at the end of November.
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