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Mr. Dubs
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.
Mr. Mayhew
The latest readily available information is given in the following table:
Population*aged under 21 in adult prisons†in England and Wales on 30 September 1982: by type of prison | |
Type of prison† | Number* |
Local prisons with young prisoner wings | 690 |
Other local prisons | 1,055 |
Closed prisons, with young prisoner wings | 101 |
Other adult prisons | 67 |
Total | 1,913 |
* Includes remand prisoners.
† Excludes remand centres.