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Young Offenders

Volume 32: debated on Friday 19 November 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders aged under 21 years are currently held in (a) young prisoners' wings of local prisons, (b) ordinary wings of local prisons and (c) other prison establishments catering largely for adults.

The latest readily available information is given in the following table:

Population*aged under 21 in adult prisonsin England and Wales on 30 September 1982: by type of prison
Type of prisonNumber*
Local prisons with young prisoner wings690
Other local prisons1,055
Closed prisons, with young prisoner wings101
Other adult prisons67
Total1,913

* Includes remand prisoners.

Excludes remand centres.