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Prisoners: Rehabilitation

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners in each prison in Wales are registered as having a drug or alcohol problem; and how many are engaged in a rehabilitation course. (152321)

No records are kept of the number of offenders with drug or alcohol problems. The numbers engaged in drug treatment (2006-07) in Welsh prisons are given in the following table

Wales prisons

Clinical interventions1

CARATs2 (assessments)

Drug rehabilitation programme starts 3

Cardiff

788

732

96

Pare

400

362

96

Prescoed/Usk

n/a

236

n/a

Swansea

453

402

152

n/a = not available. 1 Clinical intervention may involve detoxification or maintenance. 2 Counselling, assessments, referral, advice and throughcare. CARAT assessments used as a proxy measure of engagement. 3 Entrants to intensive rehabilitation programmes are referred by CARAT teams.

No central records are kept of the number of offenders engaged specifically in treatment for an alcohol problem.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will publish the report on the 12 step drug rehabilitation programme in Swansea prison which led to its closure. (152322)

There was no formal report informing the closure of the 12 Step Programme at HMP Swansea. The decision was reached after detailed discussions between the Governor of HMP Swansea and the Wales Area Drug Co-ordinator, with support from the National Drug Programme Delivery Unit (NDPDU). A key factor involved in the decision was the NDPDU audit reports. Copies of which I have placed in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what (a) drug and (b) alcohol rehabilitation courses are available at each prison in England and Wales. (152323)

A comprehensive framework is in place to address the needs of those with substance misuse problems:

clinical services are available in all local and remand prisons, including alcohol detoxification (see following list 1);

Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare (CARAT) services are available in all prisons with the exception of HMP Blantyre House. CARAT teams provide support to those where alcohol is part of a multiple drug misuse problem;

the substance misuse service for 16 to 18-year-olds provides support for those with an alcohol problem (see following list 2);

intensive drug rehabilitation programmes are run in 102 prisons (see following list 3,);

Alcoholics Anonymous run groups in approximately 60 per cent. of prisons—the list of prisons is not held centrally and I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of the list in the Library of the House; and

intensive alcohol rehabilitation programmes are currently being piloted at HMP Bullingdon and HMP Featherstone.

1. Prisons offering clinical services for substance misuse

Altcourse

Ashfield

Bedford

Belmarsh

Birmingham

Blakenhurst

Brinsford

Bristol

Brixton

Brockhill

Bronzefield

Bullingdon

Cardiff

Castington

Chelmsford

Doncaster

Dorchester

Durham

Eastwood Park

Elmley

Exeter

Feltham

Forest Bank

Foston Hall

Glen Parva

Gloucester

High Down

Holloway

Holme House

Hull

Leeds

Leicester

Lewes

Lincoln

Liverpool

Low Newton

Manchester

New Hall

Norwich

Nottingham

Parc

Parkhurst

Pentonville

Peterborough Female

Peterborough Male

Preston

Reading

Shrewsbury

Stafford

Stoke Heath

Styal

Swansea

Wandsworth

Wetherby

Winchester

Woodhill

Wormwood Scrubs

2: The substance misuse service for 16 to 18-year-olds

HMP/YOI Ashfield

HMP/YOI Brinsford

HMP/YOI Castington

HMP Cookham Wood

HMP/YOI Downview

HMP Eastwood Park

HMP/YOI/RC Feltham

HMP Foston

HMP/YOI Hindley

HMP/YOI Huntercombe

HMP/YOI Lancaster Farms

HMP/YOI New Hall

HMP/YOI Parc

HMP/YOI Stoke Heath

HMP/YOI Thorn Cross

HMP/YOI Warren Hill

HMP/YOI Werrington

HMP/YOI Wetherby

3. Intensive drug rehabilitation programmes

Acklington

Altcourse

Ashwell

Aylesbury

Bedford

Birmingham

Blakenhurst

Blundeston

Bristol

Brixton

Bullingdon

Camp Hill

Canterbury

Cardiff

Castington

Castle

Channings Wood

Chelmsford

Coldingley

Cookham Wood

Dartmoor

Deerbolt

Doncaster

Dorchester

Downview

Drake Hall

Durham

Eastwood Park

Edmunds Hill

Elmley

Erlestoke

Everthorpe

Exeter

Featherstone

Ford

Forest Bank

Frankland

Full Sutton

Garth

Gartree

Glen Parva

Gloucester

Guys Marsh

Haverigg

Highdown

Highpoint

Hindley

Hollesley Bay

Holloway

Holme House

Hull

Kingston

Kirkham

Lancaster

Lancaster Farms

Leeds

Leicester

Lewes

Leyhill

Lincoln

Lindholme

Littlehay

Liverpool

Long Lartin

Low Newton

Maidstone

Manchester

Moorland

New Hall

North Sea Camp

Northallerton

Norwich

Nottingham

Onley

Parc

Pentonville

Portland

Preston

Ranby

Reading

Risley

Rochester

Send

Stafford

Stocken

Stoke Heath

Styal

Swaleside

Swansea

Swinfen Hall

The Mount

The Verne

Thorn Cross

Wakefield

Wandsworth

Wayland

Wealstun

Wellingborough

Whitemoor

Winchester

Wormwood Scrubs

Wymott