Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 75253
Open Prisons
Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025
Question
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time spent by prisoners in open prisons was in the last (a) 12 months, (b) three years and (c) five years.
Answer
Jake RichardsPrisoners may be accommodated in more than one open prison during the course of a sentence. The data that would need to be collated to calculate the average length of time in open conditions is not held centrally and could not be obtained without incurrin...
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