Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 75248
Prisons: Drugs
Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025
Question
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of automatically transferring prisoners in open prisons who fail drugs tests to Category C prisons.
Answer
Jake RichardsPrisoners held in open conditions can be re-categorised to higher security conditions at any time if their risk increases, if there is a material change in circumstances that impacts security risk, or information (including existing information not consid...
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