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<p>The definitions of concerted indiscipline and assaults are:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Concerted
indiscipline: </strong>the number of incidents in which two or more prisoners act
together in defiance of a lawful instruction or against the requirements of the regime
of the establishment. The act of indiscipline can be active or passive (i.e. involving
aggression and violence or not) and the protagonists do not necessarily need to be
acting in a common cause.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Assaults: </strong>refer to unwanted
physical contact between two or more individuals, excluding lawful use of force by
staff (but including where staff are assaulted during use of force) or anything of
a purely verbal or threatening nature.</p><p> </p><p>Assaults in prison custody cover
a wide range of violent incidents including fights between prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Serious
assaults are those which involve one or more of the following: a sexual assault, results
in detention in outside hospital as an in-patient, requires medical treatment for
concussion or internal injuries. It also includes incurring any of the following injuries:
a fracture, scald or burn, stabbing, crushing, extensive or multiple bruising, black
eye, broken nose, lost or broken tooth, cuts requiring suturing, bites, temporary
or permanent blindness.</p><p> </p><p>We do not tolerate violence or disruptive behaviour
in our prisons. We’ve recruited 4,366 additional officers and are spending an extra
£100m, introducing tough airport-style security, x-ray scanners and phone-blocking
technology. We are also committed to ensuring our prison officers have the tools they
need to do the job safely with body worn cameras, ‘police-style’ handcuffs and restraints,
and PAVA incapacitant spray.</p>
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