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Written question asked by John Hayes (Conservative) on Tuesday, 30 July 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 2 September 2024. It was answered by Nicholas Dakin (Labour) on Wednesday, 4 September 2024 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

HMP Lincoln: Prisoners' Release

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Lincoln (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.

Answer

The table below shows the number of prisoners released from, and recalled to, HMP Lincoln and HMP Peterborough between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the number of those who were subsequently recalled, either once or more than once, during that period.

Prison released from

Number of releases

Number of offenders recalled once2

Number of offenders recalled more than once2

Lincoln

878

72

15

Peterborough1

1,437

139

41

Notes:

  1. Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.

  1. Number of individual sentences. It is possible that a very small number of offenders may have been released for the first time on different sentences during the period.

The figures in this table 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.

Source: Prison NOMIS and Public Protection Database

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
2231
Session
2024-26
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Prisoners' release HMP Lincoln
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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