§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of times that restraints have been used on inmates during the 12 months from 1 July 1992, in each prison in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Peter LloydResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from P. Drew to Mr. Tom Cox, dated July 1993:
Restraints used in Prison Service Establishments
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your Question about the number of times that restraints have been used on inmates during the 12 months from 1 July 1992 in each Prison Service establishment in England and Wales.
The number of applications of restraints under Rule 46 of the Prison Rules 1964 and Rule 49 of the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 are given in the table.
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Restraints1 applied to violent or refractory inmates of Prison Service establishments in England and Wales: by establishment, July 1992-July 1993 Establishment and type Number of applications1 Local prisons/remand centres Belmarsh 4 Birmingham 2 Bristol 1 Brixton 19 Bullingdon 1 Canterbury 1 Chelmsford 1 Elmley 3 Fletham 18 Gloucester 1 Highdown 1 Highpoint 3 Holme House 3 Hull 4 Leicester 1 Lewes 1 Lincoln 3 Liverpool 6 Pentonville 18
Establishment and type Number of applications2 Preston 2 Reading 2 Rochester 5 Shrewsbury 3 Woodhill 5 Wormwood Scrubs 10 Training Prisons Acklington 1 Albany 2 Camp Hill 2 Down view 1 Frankland 4 Full Sutton 28 Garth 9 Long Lartin 2 Maidstone 3 Nottingham 2 Stafford 1 Standford Hill 1 Swaleside 3 Wakefield 2 Wayland 2 Wellingborough 1 Whitemoor 6 Closed Young Offender Prisons Aylesbury 1 Castington 2 Deerbolt 1 Onley 2 All establishments 194 1 Loose canvas jacket, body belt, handcuffs, ankle straps and leather wrist straps. 2 Provisional figures.