HC Deb 21 November 1990 vol 181 cc120-1W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons in England and Wales in which restraints have been used on inmates during the last three years; and how many times restraints have been used at each prison during this period.

Mrs. Rumbold

The number of applications of restraints under rule 46 of the Prison Rules 1964, rule 49 of the Detention Centre Rules 1983, rule 49 of the Youth Custody Centre Rules 1983 and rule 49 of the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 are given in the table.

Restraints1 applied to violent or refractory inmates of prison service establishments in England and Wales: by establishment, 1987–89
Establishment and type Number of applications
1987 1988 1989
Local prisons/remand centres
Ashford 5
Bedford 4 3 2
Birmingham 10 3
Bristol 1
Brixton 6
Camp Hill 5
Canterbury 1
Cardiff 5 1 2
Chelmsford 1 1
Durham 1
Exeter 2
Hull 7 4 9
Leeds 1 1
Establishment and type Number of applications
1987 1988 1989
Leicester 5 17 4
Lewes 1 4
Lincoln 5 4
Oxford 1 1
Pentonville 2 1
Reading 1 2 2
Risley 2
Rochester 2
Swansea 1
Wandsworth 5 10 7
Wormwood Scrubs 3 2 2
Training prisons
Acklington 2
Albany 2 20
Blundeston 4
Camp Hill 2 6
Chelmsford 1
Cookham Wood 1
Dartmoor 1
Frankland 6 7 3
Full Sutton 7 9
Garth 1
Havering 1
Lindholme 1 4 2
Long Lartin 4 3
Parkhurst 6 6 9
Preston 2
Shepton Mallet 3
Stafford 3 1
7Styal 1
Wakefield 2
Wayland 1
Young offender institutions/youth custody centres/detention centres
Aylesbury 1 5
Buckley Hall 1
Dover 7 5
Glen Parva 1 1
Guys Marsh 1 3
Hatfield 1
Hollesley Bay 1
Onley 1 2
Rochester 8
All establishments 90 103 125
1 Loose canvas jacket, body belt, handcuffs and ankle straps. No leather wrist straps were used.

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