§ Mr. Awdryasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the age groups and previous occupations of male persons currently detained in Her Majesty's Prisons.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsStatistics about previous occupations of prisoners are not compiled centrally. On 15th March the numbers of male persons, other than non-criminal prisoners, aged under 21, and 21 and over, detained in prisons in England and Wales were 2,562 and 24,199 respectively. A more detailed age analysis of current population is not available, but 305W in 1965 the numbers of receptions of adult male persons into prisons under sentence of imprisonment, corrective training or preventive detention were as follows:
21 to 24 years 10,684 25 to 29 years 9,318 30 to 39 years 10,301 40 to 49 years 6,547 50 to 59 years 2,837 60 or over 904
§ Mr. Awdryasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list Her Majesty's Prisons, showing for each the year of construction, the present number of prisoners, the current size of the staff and the weekly total cost per prisoner for the latest available year.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsThe cost of maintaining a prisoner is not available for individual prisons. The average cost for all prisons in England and Wales in 1965–66 has been calculated provisionally as £14 10s. 4d. a week, excluding costs of new building, rent, rates, public utilities and building maintenance. Other information is as follows:
PRISONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES Year of Completion Number of Prisoners 15th March, 1967 Number of Staff OPEN PRISONS—MALES ‡1960 Appleton Thorn 279 60 ‡1955 Ash well 293 79 ‡1953 Bela River 264 38 ‡1958 Drake Hall 357 64 ‡1950 Eastchurch 514 123 Exeter (Haldon) 117 * ‡1960 Ford 514 105 ‡1962 Kirkham 402 125 ‡1946 Leyhill 405 164 ‡1953 Spring Hill 157 37 ‡1948 Sudbury 316 94 ‡ l959 Thorp Arch 286 70
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CLOSED PRISONS AND REMAND CENTRES—MALES ‡1961 Ashford R.C. 480 181 1965 Brockhill R.C. 97 60 1964 Cardiff R.C. 43 * 1964 Exeter R.C. 26 * 1965 Low Newton R.C. 65 86 1965 Pucklechurch R.C. 36 * 1965 Risley R.C. 471 245 1965 Thorp Arch R.C. 87 * 1964 Winchester R.C. 41 * †pre 1877 Bedford 269 88 †pre 1877 Birmingham 848 273 †pre 1877 Bristol 521 215 1853 Brixton 840 275 †pre 1877 Canterbury 363 126
Year of Completion Number of Prisoners 15th March, 1967 Number of Staff †pre 1877 Cardiff 380 148 †pre 1877 Dorchester 194 89 †pre 1877 Durham 937 315 †pre 1877 Exeter 366 198 †pre 1877 Gloucester 299 84 †pre 1877 Leeds 951 318 †pre 1877 Leicester 356 136 †pre 1877 Lewes 312 129 †pre 1877 Lincoln 469 166 †pre 1877 Liverpool 1,452 339 †pre 1877 Manchester 1,168 345 1885 Norwich 216 93 †pre 1877 Oxford 271 69 1840 Pentonville 1,333 274 †pre 1877 Shrewsbury 242 97 †pre 1877 Swansea 271 114 †pre 1877 Wandsworth 1,635 377 †pre 1877 Winchester 455 187 1874 Wormwood Scrubs 1,123 396 †pre 1877 Aylesbury 169 89 1963 Blundeston 300 135 1912 Camp Hill 322 165 †pre 1877 Chelmsford 433 139 circa 1800 Dartmoor 575 314 1966 Gartree 390 110 1962 Grendon 152 132 †pre 1877 Hull 279 140 pre 1877 Lancaster 241 93 †pre 1877 Maidstone 489 194 †pre 1877 Northallerton 121 72 †pre 1877 Nottingham 230 102 1835 Parkhurst 478 385 pre 1877 Preston 617 164 †pre 1877 Shepton Mallet 129 55 †pre 1877 Stafford 793 190 ‡1949 Verne 286 101 †pre 1877 Wakefield 724 370
OPEN PRISONS—FEMALES ‡1946 Askham Grange 60 41 ‡1952 Hill Hall 57 29 ‡1957 Moor Court 21 *48
CLOSED PRISONS—FEMALES 1965 Brockhill R.C. 10 1965 Low Newton R.C. 15 1965 Pucklechurch R.C. 12 1965 Risley R.C. 55 Exeter 16 †pre 1877 Holloway 297 265 ‡1963 Styal 188 127 * Indicates that the staffing is shared with another institution. † Indicates establishments taken over by the Prison Commissioners under the Prison Act 1877. ‡ Indicates establishments adapted from existing premises—date of adaptation shown.
§ Mr. Awdryasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the persons who have escaped from Her Majesty's Prisons and who have not yet been recaptured, showing the date of committal to prison, the date of escape, 307W the name of prison and the original offence in each case.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsNot all this information is available. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as I can.