First supplementary memorandum submitted
by the Ministry of Justice
OFFENDER MANAGEMENT
AND SENTENCING
(OMS) ANALYTICAL SERVICES
EVIDENCE TO
LORD CARTER'S
REVIEW OF
PRISONS
Following my attendance at the Committee's third
evidence session into its inquiry into Justice Reinvestment, you
requested further information on the evidence OMS Analytical Services
provided to the Lord Carter's Review of Prisons (http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/securing-the-future.pdf),
as part of a separate inquiry into Towards Effective Sentencing.
Please find attached the evidence documents, which
are based on published information, already in the public domain
or are part of Ministry of Justice's research publication plans:
— Adult interventions fact sheet—provided
to the Review on 2 July 2007—based on published information
as detailed.
— Offender management fact sheet—provided
to the Review in July 2007—based on published information
as detailed in the document.
— Juvenile fact sheet—provided
in July 2007—based on published information as detailed
in the document.
— NOMS interventions and reducing re-offending
narrative—presented on 2 July 2007—based on information
which is all now published, with the exception of the RSRA results,
which are in our publications plan, and the costs of criminal
career work which will be published in due course. We would therefore
be grateful, as you indicated would be acceptable, if the Committee
did not itself publish those documents in the interim.
— Reconviction Analysis of Interim
Accredited Programmes Software (IAPS) report—sent on 17
August 2007—made available to National Probation Service
on 21 January 2008 as an unclassified document and also being
distributed at various events.
— Treatment change project briefing—sent
on 7 September 2007—this covered the background to the project
only, which has been discussed publicly—eg in answer to
a Parliamentary Question on 16 October 2007: the final results,
which are currently being quality assured, are part of our publications
plan. We would therefore be grateful, as you indicated would be
acceptable, if the Committee did not itself publish those documents
in the interim.
— Reconviction rates by disposal—sent
on 7 September 2007—based on published information as detailed
in the document.
— Briefing on incapacitation—sent
on 19 October 2007—based on published information in HO
Occasional Paper 80.
We provided two analysts to the review team
on a part-time basis during 2007.
We are continuing to check the evidence base
supplied to Lord Carter and his team and will confirm what was
provided and its publication status by 11 July.
Dr Chloë Chitty
July 2008
|
