Prisons: Discipline
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison rules were broken in prisons in England and Wales in each month between July 2024 and April 2026; and how many individual prisoners broke (a) over 50 and (b) at least one rule in that time.
Answered by Jake Richards
Where it is discovered that a prisoner has broken the prison rules, prison staff can respond in several ways including by placing a prisoner on report for an adjudication, issuing an incentive level warning or undertaking an incentive review where a prisoner’s incentive level could be downgraded. Incentives are privileges that are provided to prisoners for good behaviour that can subsequently be removed for poor behaviour such as rule breaking.
Whilst many of the instances of rule breaking will result in an adjudication, how staff respond to rule breaks will depend on the severity of the rule break, and the regime in place locally.
Information is not held centrally on the detail of individual instances of prison rules being broken, nor on how many instances of breaking the prison rules any prisoner has. Where an adjudication is the outcome of a rule break, numbers of adjudications and their outcomes are routinely published in the quarterly offender management statistics: Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK.
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