The number of prisoners aged 70 and over in each prison establishment in England and Wales as at the end of April 2009 can be found in the following table:
70+ population Acklington 16 Albany 25 Altcourse 5 Ashfield 0 Ashwell 1 Askham Grange 0 Aylesbury 0 Bedford 2 Belmarsh 3 Birmingham 5 Blantyre House 2 Blundeston 1 Brinsford 0 Bristol 3 Brixton 2 Bronzefield 0 Buckley Hall 0 Bullingdon 6 Bullwood Hall 0 Camp Hill 1 Canterbury 1 Cardiff 2 Castington 0 Channings Wood 7 Chelmsford 3 Coldingley 0 Cookham Wood 0 Dartmoor 17 Deerbolt 0 Doncaster 5 Dorchester 1 Dovegate 6 Dover 0 Downview 1 Drake Hall 1 Durham 3 East Sutton Park 0 Eastwood Park 0 Edmunds Hill 1 Elmley 5 Erlestoke 3 Everthorpe 1 Exeter 6 Featherstone 1 Feltham 0 Ford 4 Forest Bank 3 Foston Hall 0 Frankland 8 Full Sutton 13 Garth 4 Gartree 3 Glen Parva 0 Gloucester 3 Grendon/Spring Hill 2 Guys Marsh 2 Haslar 0 Haverigg 1 Hewell 3 High Down 4 Highpoint 2 Hindley 0 Hollesley Bay 1 Holloway 1 Holme House 2 Hull 20 Huntercombe 0 Kennet 0 Kingston (Portsmouth) 4 Kirkham 0 Kirklevington Grange 0 Lancaster Castle 1 Lancaster Farms 0 Latchmere House 2 Leeds 7 Leicester 1 Lewes 3 Leyhill 13 Lincoln 5 Lindholme 1 Littlehey 32 Liverpool 4 Long Lartin 1 Low Newton 0 Lowdham Grange 0 Maidstone 14 Manchester 16 Moorland Closed 0 Moorland Open 0 Morton Hall 1 New Hall 0 North Sea Camp 1 Northallerton 0 Norwich 17 Nottingham 3 Onley 0 Pare 6 Parkhurst 8 Pentonville 0 Peterborough 7 Portland 0 Preston 2 Ranby 0 Reading 0 Risley 7 Rochester 0 Rye Hill 2 Send 1 Shepton Mallet 4 Shrewsbury 2 Stafford 5 Standford Hill 2 Stocken 0 Stoke Heath 0 Styal 0 Sudbury 1 Swaleside 3 Swansea 1 Swinfen Hall 0 The Mount 1 The Verne 0 The Wolds 0 Thom Cross 0 Usk/Prescoed 11 Wakefield 19 Wandsworth 20 Warren Hill 0 Warrington 0 Wayland 3 Wealstun 0 Wellingborough 2 Wetherby 0 Whatton 44 Whitemoor 1 Winchester 5 Woodhill 2 Wormwood Scrubs 7 Wymott 21 Total 525
The following table gives the number of sentenced prisoners aged 70 and over in prison establishments in England and Wales by offence group, as at 30 April 2009:
Number Violence against the person 84 Sexual offences 346 Robbery 4 Theft and handling 3 Fraud and forgery 7 Drug offences 22 Motoring offences 1 Other offences 23 All offences 489
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.
The requested information is shown in the following table.
Offence type 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2008 2007 Violence against the person 8 5 10 11 8 11 10 7 7 7 10 Sexual Offences 49 64 43 62 72 67 60 82 85 88 81 Burglary 2 1 3 2 1 0 3 0 0 2 1 Robbery 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 Theft and handling stolen goods 9 8 11 8 15 4 10 7 10 6 4 Fraud and forgery 2 4 5 5 5 6 6 4 4 4 7 Criminal Damage 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3 Drug Offences 5 5 2 8 3 4 3 6 3 9 7 Other (excluding motoring offences) 3 5 4 7 2 5 6 12 12 8 6 Indictable Motoring 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Summary non-motoring 12 12 4 5 6 6 12 14 9 14 13 Summary motoring 3 14 7 18 5 7 11 8 10 11 12 Total 94 119 89 126 118 112 122 141 141 161 147 Notes: 1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. 2. 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: OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice
The data shows the number of offenders aged 70 and over sentenced to immediate custody for each offence type, in the last 10 years. This data is presented on the principal offence basis, where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.