§ Mr. O'Neillasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) of all prisoners sentenced to the short sharp shock treatment, how many have subsequently been given other custodial sentences and how many have not;
(2) how many prisoners have undergone sentences involving the short sharp shock treatment by institution, year and length of sentence since its inception;
(3) how many prisoners sentenced to the short sharp shock treatment have previously been detained in other institutions by year and type of institution;
(4) how many prisoners have been sentenced to the short sharp shock treatment on more than one occasior by year and institution.
§ Mr. AncramThe "short sharp shock treatment" is the colloquial phrase for the sentence of young offenders to detention in a detention centre, which was introduced by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949. The numbers of receptions to detention centres in Scotland since the first one opened in 1960 are as follows:
Year Receptions 1960 175 1961 311 1962 317 1963 477 1964 613 1965 575 1966 723 1967 735 1968 825 1969 1,103 1970 1,132 1971 1,171 1972 1,083 1973 975 1974 963 1975 1,043 1976 837 1977 879 1978 919 1979 591 1980 834 1981 729 1982 862 1983 889 *1984 1,070 * January to August. Under the terms of the 1949 Act, the term of detention during the years 1960–63 could not exceed three months. A breakdown of receptions by sentence length is available in the Scottish Home and Health Department's annual reports "Prisons in Scotland" published by HMSO for these years. Under the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1963—implemented on 1 November 1963—the sentence became a fixed term of three months. Since section 45 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 was implemented 101W on 15 November 1963 sentences may vary, generally between 28 days and four months. For the period January to August 1984 the breakdown was as follows:
Length Number Under 28 days *8 28 days 15 30 days 103 1 month 13 30–60 days 15 60 days 188 2 months 36 60–90 days 3 90 days 23 3 months 549 90–120 days 2 120 days 5 4 months 108 Over 4 months †2 * These would be additional warrants served on an inmate already subject to a detention centre sentence. † This is possible under the terms of section 207(7) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975. Information on the previous custodial sentences served by inmates received at detention centres is available in "Prisons in Scotland" until 1982. This information has not been published since 1982 as it is based on the recollection of inmates on admission. The relevant figures since 1982 are as follows:
Previous sentence(s) in Year DC receptions DC Borstal YOI 1983 889 62 45 117 1984* 1,070 286 177 290 DC—Detention Centre. YOI—Young Offenders Institution. * January to August. Breakdowns of this and the other information by institution are not available except at disproportionate cost. There are no official figures available on how many inmates released from detention centres have subsequently been given other custodial sentences.