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<p>Compensation payments to prisoners can be made through civil litigation, internal
complaints, or as a result of recommendations made by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman
and by the Parliamentary Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management
Service does not record centrally the total number of compensation claims made for
loss or damage to prisoners’ property or what the total requested amount was against
these claims. To establish such details we would require an individual prison wide-survey
to identify the number of individual claims and the amount of compensation requested
against these claims made by each prisoner. This would be a significant exercise and
could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p>
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