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Home Office

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Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list prisons which accommodate life sentence inmates; what the capacity of each prison is; and how many and what percentage of prisoners are serving life sentences. [173104] Paul Goggins: A list of prisons in England and Wales that held life sentence prisoners on 31 March 2004, together with the requested information, is given in the table. Prisons holding life sentence prisoners, 31 March 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Operational capacity Lifer population Total population Percentage of population serving life sentences Acklington 881 25 869 2.9 Albany 526 111 521 21.3 Altcourse 1,010 7 988 0.7 Ashwell 545 52 533 9.8 Askham Grange 151 10 134 7.5 Aylesbury 361 46 363 12.7 Bedford 464 7 481 1.5 Belmarsh 921 47 921 5.1 Birmingham 1,400 15 1,406 1.1 Blakenhurst 880 4 870 0.5 Blantyre House 122 27 117 23.1 Blundeston 464 29 462 6.3 Bristol 584 65 581 11.2 Brixton 798 9 818 1.1 Buckley Hall 330 8 322 2.5 Bullingdon 963 6 943 0.6 Bullwood Hall 184 37 152 24.3 Cardiff 669 65 675 9.6 Castington 346 8 336 2.4 Channings Wood 667 51 664 7.7 Chelmsford 575 9 593 1.5 Coldingley 390 37 387 9.6 Cookham Wood 140 15 137 10.9 Dartmoor 625 18 618 2.9 Doncaster 1,120 12 1,118 1.1 Dorchester 260 3 223 1.3 Dovegate 860 129 839 15.4 Drake Hall 315 5 297 1.7 Durham 746 56 725 7.7 East Sutton Park 100 3 97 3.1 Eastwood Park 346 1 334 0.3 Edmunds Hill 310 1 299 0.3 Elmley 985 17 973 1.7 Erlestoke 426 27 421 6.4 Exeter 529 5 516 1.0 Featherstone 615 17 611 2.8 Feltham 761 6 688 0.9 Ford 541 47 527 8.9 Forest Bank 1,040 3 994 0.3 Foston Hall 235 30 227 13.2 Frankland 653 275 662 41.5 Full Sutton 608 261 599 43.6 Garth 667 75 659 11.4 Gartree 404 405 406 99.8 Glen Parva 808 1 778 0.1 Gloucester 324 3 302 1.0 Grendon/Spring Hill 567 134 557 24.1 Haverigg 564 16 563 2.8 Hewell Grange 170 5 165 3.0 Highdown 753 5 732 0.7 Highpoint 816 39 807 4.8 Hollesley Bay 330 34 303 11.2 Holloway 495 5 460 1.1 Holme House 994 8 996 0.8 Hull 1,071 11 1,086 1.0 Kingston(Portsmouth) 140 134 136 98.5 Kirkham 590 31 542 5.7 Kirklevington 223 14 217 6.5 Lancaster 232 3 235 1.3 Lancaster Farms 532 2 519 0.4 Latchmere House 196 14 197 7.1 Leeds 1,254 15 1,243 1.2 Leicester 385 5 374 1.3 Lewes 526 8 513 1.6 Leyhill 512 124 498 24.9 Lincoln 481 10 461 2.2 Lindholme 687 53 663 8.0 Littlehey 706 54 698 7.7 Liverpool 1,476 114 1,449 7.9 Long Lartin 442 194 436 44.5 Low Newton 396 1 320 0.3 Maidstone 547 23 548 4.2 Manchester 1,269 126 1,252 10.1 Moorland 1,039 42 1,005 4.2 New Hall 426 4 376 1.1 North Sea Camp 307 43 303 14.2 Norwich 760 10 726 1.4 Nottingham 550 15 509 2.9 Parc 1,028 15 1,016 1.5 Parkhurst 507 52 496 10.5 Pentonville 1,205 8 1,199 0.7 Preston 664 14 675 2.1 Ranby 858 19 858 2.2 Risley 1,073 47 1,060 4.4 Rye Hill 664 117 280 41.8 Send 220 3 209 1.4 Shepton Mallet 189 186 187 99.5 Shrewsbury 350 1 350 0.3 Standford Hill 464 16 423 3.8 Stocken 622 47 621 7.6 Styal 457 18 442 4.1 Sudbury 559 87 556 15.6 Swaleside 777 345 774 44.6 Swansea 348 1 347 0.3 Swinfen Hall 310 34 310 11.0 The Mount 760 26 757 3.4 The Verne 587 32 579 5.5 The Wolds 360 31 358 8.7 Usk/Prescoed 420 39 413 9.4 Wakefield 565 405 562 72.1 Wandsworth 1,441 16 1,432 1.1 Warren Hill 222 6 218 2.8 Wayland 706 40 699 5.7 Wealstun 624 18 568 3.2 Wellingborough 526 27 523 5.2 Whatton 360 9 358 2.5 Whitemoor 458 208 423 49.2 Winchester 655 16 591 2.7 Woodhill 789 18 792 2.3 Wormwood Scrubs 1,239 228 1,244 18.3 Wymott 866 38 849 4.5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

173104; 422 c322-6W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Prisoners Prisons Life imprisonment

Contains statistics

Yes

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