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<p>[holding answer 26 February 2014]</p><p>For the for week commencing 24 February
2014, there were 821 immigration detainees in prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that
the data includes a small number of individuals who have never served a custodial
sentence. These individuals present specific risk factors that indicate they pose
a serious risk of harm to the public or to the good order of an Immigration Removal
Centre, including the safety of staff and other detainees, which cannot be managed
within the regime applied in IRCs.</p><p> </p><p>To extract this small number of cases
who have not served a custodial sentence would incur a disproportionate cost as this
would involve looking at individual records.</p><p> </p>
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