Justice written question – answered at on 31 March 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) remand and (b) convicted prisoners were accommodated at HMP Dorchester on the first Friday of each month for the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Monthly prison population figures are published for the population as at the end of the month. The following table shows the population in HMP Dorchester as at the end of each month in 2007. For completeness the table shows the total population broken down into (a) untried remand; (b) convicted (broken into convicted unsentenced remand and immediate custodial sentenced); (c) fine defaulters and non-criminal prisoners.
2007 | |||||
Untried remand | Convicted unsentenced remand | Sentenced (excl. fine defaulters) | Fine defaulters and non- criminals | Total population | |
January | 45 | 38 | 159 | 2 | 244 |
February | 43 | 38 | 163 | 1 | 245 |
March | 47 | 35 | 155 | 7 | 244 |
April | 48 | 48 | 145 | 4 | 245 |
May | 49 | 43 | 128 | 4 | 224 |
June | 66 | 40 | 131 | 4 | 241 |
July | 69 | 42 | 120 | 3 | 234 |
August | 56 | 43 | 127 | 3 | 229 |
September | 60 | 49 | 114 | 5 | 228 |
October | 58 | 50 | 113 | 8 | 229 |
November | 61 | 38 | 121 | 5 | 225 |
December | 67 | 33 | 116 | 3 | 219 |
These figures are taken from the F1032 tables which were made available to the House of Commons Library at time of issue.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
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