Justice written question – answered at on 13 January 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners currently serving a sentence of under four years are serving concurrent sentences which, if served consecutively, would result in a prison term of four years or longer.
From the most recent available data, September 2010, the number of prisoners serving sentences of less than four years is 28,770.
The Ministry of Justice Inmate Information System (IIS) holds information on the prison population under sentence for criminal offences in England and Wales. However, the IIS does not identify concurrent sentences for each prisoner. This detailed information may be held by the courts on individual case files and could be provided only through manual checking of all records at disproportionate cost.
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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