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Prisoners: Dorset

Volume 463: debated on Monday 23 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) certified normal capacity and (b) current prison population for prisons is in Dorset. (151594)

The data requested are provided in the following table. These figures are for 20 July 2007.

Prison

Certified normal accommodation1

Operational capacity2

Population

Dorchester

147

260

235

Guys Marsh

520

578

561

Portland

519

557

543

Verne

558

593

586

1 The Certified normal accommodation (CNA) of a prison measures its capacity to accommodate prisoners in uncrowded conditions.

2 Operational capacity for establishments is the total number of prisoners that an establishment can hold taking into account control, security and the proper operation of the planned regime.