Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 20 November 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were charged with a serious crime committed while they were in prison in each year since 2010.
Police, prisons and CPS work closely together at the local level to ensure that there is an effective criminal justice response to crimes in prison. The recently announced protocol on the appropriate handling of crime in prison is designed to ensure that there is greater consistency in approach across different regions.
It is not possible to identify from centrally held data, the number of prisoners proceeded against since 2010 in respect of a serious crime committed whilst in custody. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by asking individual prisons to liaise with police forces and examine their records for the period in question.
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