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Prisoners: Rehabilitation

Volume 463: debated on Monday 10 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners, sentenced to indeterminate sentences for public protection, are accommodated in prisons which do not run the rehabilitative programmes such prisoners are required to complete before they can be considered for release. (154933)

A review undertaken in August 2007 indicated that approximately 120 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection (IPPs) were in prisons which do not provide accredited offending behaviour or drug treatment programmes. This equated to approximately 4 per cent. of the IPP population and includes those newly sentenced and waiting allocation. The situation will of course change daily as prisoners move. Whether an individual requires a programme, and if so, which programme, will depend upon the assessment of their risk and needs. Not all prisons provide the same programmes.