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Prisons: Location

Answer

There are complex and wide-ranging issues involved in transferring and locating prisoners, and allocation decisions must reflect both the specific needs and circumstances of the prisoner, including their security assessment, as well as the operating environment and range of services at the receiving prison.

HMPPS is committed to ensuring, where practicable and appropriate, that prisoners are accommodated as close as possible to their resettlement communities and families. Whilst this is a priority, it is not always possible due to a variety of factors, for example where prisoners have specific sentence planning needs which can only be met at certain establishments.

A year-by-year summary of average distance from home, in miles, for all prisoners in female and male prisons and Young Offenders Institutes (YOIs) is listed below. This includes 15-17 year olds living in YOIs. Distances are measured in a straight line between the home address and the prison/YOI currently holding the prisoner, rather than the prison/YOI they were initially sent to.

Date	Average distance from home – Female Prisons	Average distance from home – Male Prisons	Average distance from home - All
14/05/2010	56	51	51
31/03/2011	47	43	43
31/03/2012	45	43	43
31/03/2013	45	44	44
31/03/2014	47	43	43
31/03/2015	44	43	43
31/03/2016	47	43	43
31/03/2017	46	44	45
31/03/2018	48	45	45
31/03/2019	49	45	46
31/03/2020	48	50	50
31/03/2021	47	45	45
31/03/2022	45	45	45

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

31829

Session

2022-23

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Prisons: Location
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
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Subjects

Prisons Location

Contains statistics

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