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Written question asked by Baroness Stern (Crossbench), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour) on Wednesday, 31 January 2007.


Prisons: Concerted Indiscipline

Question
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 five-year period.
Answer

The information requested is contained in the following table. The working definition of 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.

Acts of Concerted Indiscipline Between 2001-06
Establishment Name 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Albany 1 0 1 0
Altcourse 2 2 1 2 0
Ashfield 2 3 0 0 1
Ashwell 1 1 1
Aylesbury 1 0 0 1
Bedford 1 1 0 1
Belmarsh 1 1 3 2
Birmingham 0 1 1
Blakenhurst 3 1 1 1
Blundeston 1 1 3 1 1
Brinsford 2 0 0 1
Bristol 2 3 1 1
Brixton 2 1 4 5 2
Brockhill 1 1 4 3 5
Bronzefield 2 1
Buckley Hall 2 1 1 2
Bullingdon 1 1 6 2 2
Bullwood Hall 1 5 2
Camp Hill 1 0 0 2
Canterbury 2 2 2 0
Cardiff 1 2 0 2 2
Castington 4 2 1 2 3
Chelmsford 1 1 1 1
Cookham Wood 1 1 0 0
Dartmoor 1 4 1 0 0
Deerbolt 1 3 2 3 1
Doncaster 1 1 0 1
Dorchester 1 0 0 0
Dovegate 5 2 1 1 1
Dover 0 1 3
Downview 1 2 1 4 10
Durham 2 0 0 0
Eastwood Park 1 2 1 1 3
Edmunds Hill 0 0 1
Elmley 0 2 1
Erlestoke 0 0 1
Escort Area 2 (S Wales & West Court Area) 0 1 0
Everthorpe 3 0 0 0
Exeter 6 1 4 1 2
Featherstone 1 1 1 0 0
Feltham 2 1 3 3 7
Forest Bank 1 2 1 5 1
Foston Hall 0 1 0
Frankland 1 2 0
Full Sutton 3 0 2 1
Garth 2 1 1 1 3
Gartree 1 0 1 0
Glen Parva 1 1 1 0 0
Gloucester 2 0 0 0
Grendon 1 0 0
Guys Marsh 2 3 2 1 1
Haslar 1 2 2 0
Haverigg 2 1 1 2
High Down 1 3 1 5 2
Highpoint 4 3 6 1 1
Hindley 5 7 4 4
Hollesley Bay 1 0 0 0
Holloway 1 0 1 1
Holme House 2 0 0 1
Hull 2 1 3 1 0
Huntercombe 1 2 1 0 2
Kirkham 1 0 0 0
Lancaster 2 0 0 2
Lancaster Farms 1 5 1 5
Leeds 1 1 0 5 1
Leicester 2 1 2 0
Lewes 2 3 2
Lincoln 2 6 3 1 1
Lindholme 1 4 5 3 5
Littlehey 1 0 0 0
Liverpool 1 0 0 0
Long Lartin 1 2 3 0 0
Low Newton 2 1 0 1
Lowdham Grange 0 1 0
Maidstone 1 1 0 0
Manchester 2 4 2 0 1
Moorland 1 2 2 1 0
Morton Hall 2 2 0 0
Mount 1 4 1 1 1
New Hall 1 1 6 2 0
Northallerton 1 1 1 6 1
Norwich 1 3 2 0 1
Nottingham 1 1 4
Onley 1 0 1 0
Parc 3 2 15 8 1
Parkhurst 4 1 0 1 0
Pentonville 1 1 2 1 0
Peterborough Male 5
Portland 3 0 2 0
Preston 1 2 0 0
Ranby 5 3 1 0 1
Reading 3 1 0 0 0
Risley 1 7 3
Rochester 1 1 0 0
Rye Hill 3 0 3 0
Send 1 0 2
Stafford 2 1 3 2
Stocken 1 0 0 3
Stoke Heath 2 2 1 5
Styal 1 0 5 1
Swaleside 3 2 0 0
Swansea 0 0 1
Thorn Cross 1 0 0
Verne 0 1 0
Wakefield 0 0 1
Wandsworth 1 2 3 4 0
Wayland 1 2 0
Weare 3 5 6 0
Wellingborough 3 1 2
Werrington 1 1 0 1 2
Wetherby 3 2 1 3 1
Whitemoor 1 1 5 0 2
Winchester 2 1 1 0
Wolds 1 1 2 0
Woodhill 7 6 0 1 1
Wormwood Scrubs 3 0 1 0
Wymott 1 0 0
Totals 116 147 163 163 141

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1664; 689 c60-4WA
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Discipline Prisoners Prisons
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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