HMP/YOI Peterborough: Prisoners' Release
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Peterborough (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
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:
Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.
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
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