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Young Offenders

Volume 492: debated on Tuesday 19 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many inmates of each age group there were in each young offender institution in each year since 1997. (272025)

Available information provided in the following table shows the number of 15-17 year olds and young adults under sentence in prison establishments in England and Wales as at the end of June 2002 to June 2007 (latest available).

Young adults are those aged 18-20 and those 21-year-olds who were aged 20 or under at conviction who have not been reclassified as part of the adult population.

It is not possible to provide information from 1997 without incurring disproportionate cost.

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.

Population in prison establishments1, 2 under sentence, by age, June 2002 to June 2007

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

15-17

18-20

15-17

18-20

15-17

18-20

15-17

18-20

15-17

18-20

15-17

18-20

Altcourse

1

106

0

84

0

65

0

82

0

134

0

150

Ashfield

249

64

171

133

254

56

265

44

294

63

319

66

Aylesbury

0

328

0

292

0

318

0

363

1

346

1

347

Belmarsh

0

41

0

22

0

11

0

16

0

25

0

15

Blakenhurst

0

28

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Brinsford

173

280

171

259

177

260

182

256

199

263

145

314

Bristol

0

20

0

0

0

27

0

30

0

30

0

38

Brockhill

13

38

9

35

1

16

0

0

0

0

0

0

Bronzefield

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

12

0

30

0

11

Bullingdon

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

22

0

0

0

0

Bullwood Hall

28

108

14

100

17

19

15

90

0

0

0

0

Castington

178

143

140

126

136

229

126

205

141

226

134

236

Chelmsford

0

166

0

110

1

149

2

118

0

142

0

199

Cookham Wood

0

0

0

26

0

15

0

0

14

4

16

7

Deerbolt

0

445

0

375

0

401

0

390

0

367

0

390

Doncaster

1

287

0

222

0

258

0

260

0

262

0

311

Dorchester

0

14

0

19

0

19

0

28

0

30

0

19

Dover

0

23

0

33

0

22

0

38

0

16

0

14

Downview

0

0

0

0

0

0

12

4

16

5

15

1

Drake Hall

0

39

0

24

0

26

0

0

0

25

0

0

East Sutton Park

0

0

0

24

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Eastwood Park

8

52

6

38

8

51

11

34

17

63

14

67

Elmley

0

53

0

53

0

54

1

52

0

70

0

86

Exeter

0

47

0

66

0

49

0

73

0

51

0

0

Feltham

287

333

264

323

229

354

217

372

208

367

208

354

Forest Bank

0

213

0

226

0

138

0

138

0

159

0

109

Foston Hall

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

11

6

Glen Parva

0

764

0

694

1

650

0

746

0

737

0

756

Gloucester

0

13

0

0

0

16

0

18

0

17

1

10

Guys Marsh

0

113

0

104

0

121

0

68

0

67

0

65

Haslar

0

0

0

0

0

10

1

10

0

14

0

0

Highdown

1

76

0

77

0

55

0

64

1

78

1

145

Hindley

171

325

145

332

147

297

146

250

154

260

147

339

Hollesley Bay

168

65

2

19

0

13

0

14

0

15

0

21

Holloway

13

56

10

49

9

38

2

60

1

105

0

109

Holme House

0

30

0

50

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Hull

0

99

0

121

0

91

0

96

0

90

0

119

Huntercombe

257

88

212

52

293

64

285

53

299

55

288

68

Lancaster Farms

170

285

166

270

168

271

208

295

205

291

217

290

Lewes

0

40

0

19

1

28

1

32

0

41

0

29

Lindholme

0

0

0

11

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Low Newton

1

77

1

62

0

57

0

58

0

36

0

21

Moorland

0

324

0

420

0

255

0

352

0

251

0

347

New Hall

46

52

34

46

42

50

32

44

22

49

19

53

Northallerton

0

222

0

205

0

214

0

191

0

210

0

233

Norwich

0

149

0

140

0

138

0

150

0

159

0

156

Onley

188

295

194

310

0

199

0

157

0

160

0

199

Pare

16

390

19

421

21

317

15

346

34

340

51

351

Peterborough

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

29

0

31

0

49

Portland

0

431

0

383

0

392

0

343

1

409

0

464

Reading

0

242

0

224

0

243

0

267

0

261

2

246

Rochester

0

152

0

143

0

300

0

344

0

363

0

368

Stoke Heath

166

447

112

454

162

422

162

428

180

456

178

469

Styal

5

77

0

25

0

0

0

38

0

39

0

59

Swinfen Hall

3

246

0

236

0

287

0

306

0

306

0

337

Thorn Cross

26

146

25

133

35

196

35

176

22

156

23

184

Usk/Prescoed

0

0

0

10

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Warren Hill

0

0

163

27

173

35

183

28

183

33

175

36

Werrington

116

14

90

23

108

31

114

19

133

22

0

0

Wetherby

293

40

285

43

250

30

290

51

284

51

287

67

Woodhill

0

97

0

86

3

61

5

75

6

65

3

82

Other establishments

0

53

0

60

1

69

0

62

0

65

0

90

1 To reduce the size of the table, where inmates for both age groups combined per establishment are less than 10 the establishment figures are included in “Other establishments”.

2 For accuracy, figures are excluded where inmates for both age groups combined per establishment are less than 10.