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Prisons: Homicide

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many homicides have occurred in (a) prisons and (b) young offender institutions in England and Wales in each year since 1997. (218879)

The answer is given in the following table.

Homicides1 in prisons and YOIs

1997

1998

2000

2003

2004

2005

2007

(a) Prison

HMP Birmingham

1

1

HMP Cardiff

1

HMP Full Sutton

1

HMP Garth

1

HMP Leeds

1

1

HMP Leicester

1

HMP Lewes

1

HMP Liverpool

1

HMP Manchester

1

HMP Risley

1

HMP Rye Hill

1

HMP Wayland

1

HMP Woodhill

1

(b) YOI

HMYOI Feltham

1

HMYOI Stoke Heath

1

1 This includes apparent and suspected homicides where no conviction has been obtained and/or inquest verdicts have not yet been returned. This table does not include uncategorised deaths which may subsequently be classified as homicides by NOMS.