Prisoners Release
Justice
Written answers and statements, 28 October 2009
Alan Duncan (Shadow Minister (Prisons), Justice; Rutland & Melton, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners released in each year since 2000 for which figures are available had already completed (a) a community sentence, (b) one custodial sentence, (c) more than one custodial sentence and (d) more than five custodial sentences.
Maria Eagle (Minister of State (also in the Government Equalities Office), Ministry of Justice; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
The following table shows actual reoffending rates and frequency of reoffending per 100 offenders who were discharged from custody in the first quarter of each year from 2000 to 2007 (latest available data), broken down by the number of previous custodial sentences. Information is not available for the number of community sentences that an offender has previously received.
Further information on the one year rates of reoffending can be found in:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm.
| Table 1: Actual reoffending rates and frequency per 100 offenders for those discharged from custody, by number of previous custodial sentences, 2000, 2002-07 cohorts | ||||
| Number of previous custodial sentences | Cohort year | Number of offenders released from custody | Actual reoffending rate | Number of offences per 100 offenders |
| No previous custodial sentences | 2000 Q1 | 5,657 | 28.8 | 108.2 |
| 2002 Q1 | 5,134 | 30.8 | 122.7 | |
| 2003 Q1 | 4,610 | 26.7 | 99.0 | |
| 2004 Q1 | 4,773 | 25.1 | 85.9 | |
| 2005 Q1 | 4,500 | 22.4 | 75.4 | |
| 2006 Q1 | 4,637 | 21.5 | 67.8 | |
| 2007 Q1 | 3,939 | 22.7 | 72.3 | |
| One previous custodial sentence | 2000 Q1 | 2,475 | 50.8 | 220.5 |
| 2002 Q1 | 2,342 | 51.6 | 236.3 | |
| 2003 Q1 | 2,039 | 50.4 | 214.4 | |
| 2004 Q1 | 2,232 | 45.2 | 202.0 | |
| 2005 Q1 | 2,000 | 42.0 | 164.2 | |
| 2006 Q1 | 1,927 | 39.4 | 153.1 | |
| 2007 Q1 | 1,767 | 41.3 | 146.0 | |
| Between two and five previous custodial sentences | 2000 Q1 | 4,612 | 63.8 | 319.3 |
| 2002 Q1 | 4,739 | 66.9 | 361.9 | |
| 2003 Q1 | 4,337 | 65.0 | 336.4 | |
| 2004 Q1 | 4,760 | 61.1 | 286.7 | |
| 2005 Q1 | 4,315 | 58.7 | 256.3 | |
| 2006 Q1 | 4,015 | 54.4 | 226.0 | |
| 2007 Q1 | 3,534 | 53.8 | 237.4 | |
| More than five previous custodial sentences | 2000 Q1 | 2,973 | 75.4 | 413.4 |
| 2002 Q1 | 3,350 | 77.8 | 473.4 | |
| 2003 Q1 | 3,360 | 78.9 | 491.2 | |
| 2004 Q1 | 3,984 | 76.8 | 441.6 | |
| 2005 Q1 | 3,764 | 73.8 | 413.9 | |
| 2006 Q1 | 3,785 | 72.3 | 390.2 | |
| 2007 Q1 | 3,570 | 70.8 | 413.9 | |
| Total | 2000 Q1 | 15,717 | 51.4 | 245.6 |
| 2002 Q1 | 15,565 | 55.0 | 288.1 | |
| 2003 Q1 | 14,346 | 53.9 | 279.0 | |
| 2004 Q1 | 15,749 | 51.9 | 253.1 | |
| 2005 Q1 | 14,579 | 49.1 | 228.5 | |
| 2006 Q1 | 14,364 | 46.5 | 208.4 | |
| 2007 Q1 | 12,810 | 47.2 | 223.2 | |
| Note: Please note that data is not available for 2001 due to a problem with archived data on court orders. Since it will not substantially increase the knowledge on the current progress on reoffending, no resources have been allocated to fix this problem. | ||||