Written question asked by Greg Knight (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 December 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 12 December 2006. It was answered by Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour) on Monday, 18 December 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

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Question: (2) how many inquiries were conducted at each London prison establishment into allegations of prisoner abuse in each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

[holding answer 12 December 2006]: The Investigation Support Section, formed in July 2000, holds and monitors centrally all formally registered investigations as per Prison Service Order 1300 - Investigations. Therefore it is not possible to examine records before July 2000.The following table details the number of formal investigations into allegations of inappropriate treatment of individual prisoners by the Prison Service which have been conducted in the London Area prisons since July 2000.In addition four reports have been prepared into the Management of Wormwood Scrubs and the treatment of prisoners there during the 1990’s, and one review was carried out into allegations of racist behaviour by staff at Brixton in 2003.

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	Total
Latchmere	n/a	n/a	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Holloway	n/a	n/a	3	4	5	5	3	3	2	24
Feltham	n/a	n/a	1	26	11	12	7	7	4	68
Brixton	n/a	n/a	6	11	15	5	6	9	11	63
Pentonville	n/a	n/a	1	11	6	16	2	5	4	46
Wormwood Scrubs	n/a	n/a	1	13	13	9	5	1	2	44
Wandsworth	n/a	n/a	1	2	7	2	7	3	5	27
Belmarsh	n/a	n/a	0	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
Total	n/a	n/a	13	69	59	49	31	29	29	279

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Type: Written question
Reference: 107867; 454 c1678-80W;454 c1680-2W
Session: 2006-07
Subjects: Abuse Greater London Prisoners Prisons
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

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