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Lindholme Prison

Answer

The following table gives the numbers of (a) UK national and (b) foreign national prisoners there were at quarter-year intervals between March 2008 and March 2009 in Lindholme prison.

	Total population	Foreign nationals	UK nationals	Nationality not recorded
March 2009	1,122	226	896	0
December 2008	1,101	176	876	49
September 2008	1,108	162	900	46
June 2008	1,069	135	897	37
March 2008	1,093	152	898	43

These figures include foreign national prisoners serving their sentence, those on remand pending prosecution and those being held under immigration powers pending deportation action.A prisoner's nationality in respect of these records is self declared. For a period of time the system will always show that a number of prisoners have unrecorded nationality, although in reality this is either undeclared nationality or a refusal to disclose one's nationality.Data on foreign national prisoners are published quarterly in the population in custody bulletin, again on the Ministry of Justice website:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm"These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

492 c1576-7W; 275524

Session

2008-09

Subjects

HMP Lindholme

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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