Information on the numbers of 15 to 17-year-olds within the prison population in England and Wales as at 30 June in each year between 1995 and 2006, can be found in the following table.
No one under the age of 15 is held in Prison Service establishments.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Males Aged 15 Total 181 217 254 244 218 283 300 302 227 271 243 289 Untried 34 35 46 48 29 35 41 33 29 37 38 32 Convicted unsentenced 20 39 28 38 15 16 7 26 8 15 14 27 Immediate custodial sentence 127 143 180 158 174 232 252 243 190 220 191 230 Non-criminal — — — — — — — — — — — — Aged 16 Total 453 582 643 675 639 664 704 753 661 639 685 726 Untried 104 133 114 100 106 82 69 99 81 74 78 98 Convicted unsentenced 51 64 57 83 49 32 29 55 40 43 43 36 Immediate custodial sentence 298 385 472 492 484 550 606 599 540 522 563 592 Non-criminal — — — — — — — — — — 1 — Aged 17 Total 992 1,225 1,511 1,468 1,479 1,398 1,340 1,434 1,288 1,288 1,326 1,423 Untried 260 304 297 286 285 242 182 183 206 211 210 250 Convicted unsentenced 200 187 246 205 209 147 105 110 88 111 88 130 Immediate custodial sentence 532 734 968 977 985 1,009 1,053 1,139 993 965 1,026 1,043 Non-criminal — — — — — — — 2 — 1 2 — In default of payment of a fine — — — — — — — — — — — — Females Aged 15 Total 1 7 9 7 7 3 7 9 — — — — Untried — — — — — — — — — — — — Convicted unsentenced — — — — — — — — — — — — Immediate custodial sentence 1 7 9 7 7 3 7 9 — — — — Non-criminal — — — — — — — — — — — — Aged 16 Total 13 17 12 20 22 28 12 27 6 2 1 — Untried — — — — — — — — — — — — Convicted unsentenced 1 — — — — — — — — 1 — — Immediate Custodial Sentence 12 17 12 20 22 28 12 27 6 1 1 — Non-criminal — — — — — — — — — — — — Aged 17 Total 35 45 50 52 57 58 71 81 71 74 71 69 Untried 11 8 11 8 13 13 13 5 12 10 11 14 Convicted unsentenced 6 4 7 9 6 7 12 7 8 84 — 5 Immediate Custodial Sentence 18 33 32 35 38 38 46 68 51 57 54 50 Non-criminal — — — — — — — — — 2 — — In default of payment of a fine — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Taken from table 8.20 in the Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2005 to be found at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1806section8.xls Data Sources and Quality: These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so although shown to the last individual, the figures may not be accurate to that level. See Technical appendix of report for fuller information.