Numbers given immediate custody by criminal justice area are published in the Ministry of Justice statistical bulletin, ‘Sentencing Statistics 2006’. The total number sentenced and the percentage given immediate custody for Essex can be found in Table 5.1.
http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/sentencing-stats2006.pdf
Please note that these figures are for all ages and are not limited to young offenders.
The information is also in the table as follows.
Defendants Court 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Aged 10-17 Chelmsford magistrates court 26 23 41 28 21 Chelmsford Crown court 12 7 12 14 9 Aged 18-20 Chelmsford magistrates court 61 52 70 53 57 Chelmsford Crown court 75 81 76 97 98 Total for Chelmsford 174 163 199 192 185 1 Young offenders are aged 18-20. 2 Magistrates courts in Chelmsford and the Crown court if committed by magistrates in Chelmsford. Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice