Supplementary memorandum from the National
Offender Management Service
Questions 77-81 (Mr Bacon)
The latest population data available for analysis
is from 2006. The data is published in Offender Management
Caseload Statistics 2006, Ministry of Justice, December 2007.
The headlines from the data are:
— 65,900 adult prisoners were discharged
from determinate sentences.
— Of those, 25% served an average of
only one month. With remand time excluded, this group served an
average of 24 days.
— A further 27% of all adult discharges,
served less than 2 months, excluding remand time.
— In total, 52% of all adult discharges
in 2006 served less than 2 months in custody.
— 12,500 young offenders were discharged
from determinate sentences in 2006.
— Of those, 22% served an average of
one month. With remand time excluded, this group served an average
of 27 days.
— A further 38% of all young offender
discharges served 2.5 months including remand time and 2.1 months
excluding remand time.
This data clearly shows the challenges we face
in terms of assessing need, prioritising interventions and then
delivering services to prisoners that reduce their risk of re-offending.
For many of these prisoners our over-riding priority is managing
their drug detoxification and assessing their mental and physical
health. It is only once these matters are being safely managed
that we can facilitate the delivery of services and interventions,
including learning and skills, to prisoners.
AVERAGE TIME
SERVED BY
ADULT PRISONERS
BY SENTENCE
LENGTH
Sentence length
| Number of
persons
| Proportion
of
| Average
length of
| Average time served (months)
|
| discharged | discharges
%
| sentence
(mths)
| Including
Remand time
| Excluding
remand time |
All sentence lengths | 65,900
| 100 | 16.5 | 9.0
| 8.1 |
| Up to and inc 3 mths | 16,300
| 24.8 | 1.9 | 1.0
| 0.8 |
| Over 3 mths and inc 6 mths | 17,900
| 27.0 | 4.7 | 2.3
| 1.9 |
| Over 6 mths less than 12 mths | 6,200
| 9.4 | 8.6 | 4.0
| 3.3 |
| 12 months | 2,800 | 4.3
| 12.0 | 5.8 | 4.9
|
| Over 12 mths up to and inc 18 mths | 4,600
| 7.0 | 16.3 | 7.8
| 6.5 |
| Over 18 mths up to and inc 3 yrs | 8,900
| 13.5 | 28.4 | 14.5
| 12.6 |
| Over 3 yrs less than 4 yrs | 2,700
| 4.1 | 42.5 | 23.0
| 20.2 |
| 4 years | 1,400 | 2.1
| 48.0 | 29.4 | 26.6
|
| Over 4 yrs up to and inc 5 yrs | 2,200
| 3.3 | 57.0 | 34.9
| 31.4 |
| Over 5 yrs up to and inc 10 yrs | 2,700
| 4.1 | 83.9 | 51.3
| 46.3 |
| Over 10 yrs less than indeterminate | 300
| 0.5 | 157.2 | 95.4
| 86.6 |
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AVERAGE TIME
SERVED BY
YOUNG OFFENDERS
BY SENTENCE
LENGTH
Sentence length | Number of
persons
| Proportion
of
| Average
length of
| Average time served (months)
|
| discharged | discharges
%
| sentence
(mths)
| Including
Remand time
| Excluding
remand time |
All sentence lengths | 12,500
| 100 | 9.8 | 4.9
| 4.2 |
| Up to and inc 3 mths | 2,800 |
22.4 | 1.9 | 1.0 |
0.9 |
| Over 3 mths and inc 6 mths | 4,700
| 37.6 | 4.8 | 2.5
| 2.1 |
| Over 6 mths less than 12 mths | 1,900
| 15.2 | 8.6 | 4.2
| 3.5 |
| 12 months | 700 | 5.6
| 12.0 | 6.1 | 5.3
|
| Over 12 mths up to and inc 18 mths | 700
| 5.6 | 17.0 | 8.3
| 7.2 |
| Over 18 mths up to and inc 3 yrs | 1,000
| 8.0 | 28.4 | 13.6
| 11.7 |
| Over 3 yrs less than 4 yrs | 300
| 2.4 | 42.4 | 20.5
| 17.5 |
| 4 years | 100 | 0.8
| 48.0 | 28.0 | 24.8
|
| Over 4 yrs less than determinate | 100
| 0.8 | 59.7 | 34.4
| 31.0 |
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