Justice written question – answered at on 4 November 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders were released on licence from prisons in England and Wales having served less than half of their custodial sentence in the latest period for which figures are available.
In 2007, 11,428 prisoners were released earlier than their halfway point of sentence subject to licence conditions on the Home Detention Curfew Scheme and 16,197 prisoners were released under temporary licence on the End of Custody Licence scheme.
The Offender Caseload statistics for 2007 were published on
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