§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by establishment, what have been the reconviction rates of persons released from detention centres since 1980.
§ Mr. HurdThe latest readily available information for all detention centres relates to young offenders convicted within two years of discharge in 1979 and is published in tables 8(b) and 8.3 of "Prison Statistics, England and Wales, 1982" (Cmnd. 9027). Corresponding information for all individual establishments could be provided only at 578W disproportionate cost. However, reconviction rates within one year of discarge for samples of those received into selected establishments are included in the report on the evaluation of the experiment with tougher regimes in detention centres being published today.