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Prison Accommodation: Dorchester Prison

Volume 474: debated on Monday 31 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) remand and (b) convicted prisoners were accommodated at HMP Dorchester on the first Friday of each month for the last 12 months for which figures are available. (196403)

Monthly prison population figures are published for the population as at the end of the month. The following table shows the population in HMP Dorchester as at the end of each month in 2007. For completeness the table shows the total population broken down into (a) untried remand; (b) convicted (broken into convicted unsentenced remand and immediate custodial sentenced); (c) fine defaulters and non-criminal prisoners.

2007

Untried remand

Convicted unsentenced remand

Sentenced (excl. fine defaulters)

Fine defaulters and non- criminals

Total population

January

45

38

159

2

244

February

43

38

163

1

245

March

47

35

155

7

244

April

48

48

145

4

245

May

49

43

128

4

224

June

66

40

131

4

241

July

69

42

120

3

234

August

56

43

127

3

229

September

60

49

114

5

228

October

58

50

113

8

229

November

61

38

121

5

225

December

67

33

116

3

219

These figures are taken from the F1032 tables which were made available to the House of Commons Library at time of issue.

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.