Justice written question – answered at on 7 January 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how long on average prisoners who have absconded from HM Prison Hollesley Bay in the last six years have been at large.
Statistics are not available for the year 2002-03. The figures in the following table relate to the average number of days from abscond to recapture of those determinate sentence prisoners who absconded from Hollesley Bay in each of the past five years up to the end of September 2007. Averages such as these can be heavily skewed by one or two prisoners remaining at large for long periods. For example in 2003-04, four absconds were caught the day they absconded, and in total 28 were recaptured within a month.
Average time at large | |
2003-04 | 43 |
2004-05 | 50 |
2005-06 | 78 |
2006-07 | 67 |
2007-08 (end September)(1) | 18 |
(1 )Figures recorded for 2007-08 are provisional and subject to change. |
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