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Prisons: Concerted Indiscipline

Baroness Stern asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will indicate, broken down by prison, the acts of concerted indiscipline that have taken place over the past 12-month period. [HL638]

The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): Over the past 12-month period there have been 120 acts of concerted indiscipline in England and Wales. The following table sets out the number of acts of concerted indiscipline, both active and passive, broken down by prison.

An act of concerted indiscipline is an incident in which two or more prisoners act together in defiance of a lawful instruction or against the requirements of the regime of the establishment. The indiscipline may be active or passive and those involved may not necessarily be acting in a common cause.

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Acts of Concerted Indiscipline between 8 December 2005 and 8 December 2006
Establishment		Active Indiscipline		Passive Indiscipline		Total
Doncaster		1		1		2
Dovegate		1		2		3
Parc		0		2		2
Peterborough		0		3		3
Wolds		2		0		2
Manchester		0		1
Wakefield		1		0		1
Whitemoor		1		1		2
Woodhill		2		1		3
Foston Hall		0		1		1
Lincoln		0		3		3
Nottingham		2		0		2
Ranby		0		1		1
Leicester		0		3		3
Wellingborough		0		1		1
Bedford		0		1		1
Bullwood Hall		0		1		1
Edmunds Hill		1		0		1
Highpoint		0		1		1
Norwich		0		2		2
Elmley				1		1
Buckley Hall		0		2		2
Haverigg		1		3		4
Lancaster		1		0		1
Risley		2		0		2
Hindley		4		1		5
Lancaster Farms		6		0		6
Holloway		0		1		1
Wandsworth		0		1		1
Feltham		1		3		4
Durham				3		3
Castington		0		1		1
Deerbolt		2		0		2
Bristol		0		1		1
Channings Wood		1		0		1
Dartmoor		1		0		1
Eastwood Park		1		1		2
Erlestoke		0		1		1
Leyhill		1		0		1
Portland		1		0		1
Downview		6		1		7
Highdown		1		0		1
Lewes		2		1		3
Send		0		1		1
Bullingdon		1		0
Aylesbury		1		1		2
Huntercombe		1		1		2
Cardiff		1		0		1
Blakenhurst	0		1		1
Stafford	0		2		2
Brockhill	1		0		1
Stoke Heath	5		1		6
Werrington	0		1		1
Hull	0		1		1
Leeds	0		1		1
Lindholme	0		2		2
Moorland	0		1		1
New Hall	1		0		1
Wetherby	1		0		1
Total	54		59		113

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