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<p>As of 17 September 2021, a woman in prison was on average 46 miles from their origin
address.</p><p>There are complex and wide-ranging issues involved in transferring
and locating prisoners, and allocation decisions must reflect both the specific needs
and circumstances of the prisoner, including their security assessment, as well as
the operating environment and range of services at the receiving prison.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS
is committed to ensuring, where practicable, that prisoners are accommodated as close
as possible to their resettlement communities and families. Whilst this is a priority,
it is not always possible due to a variety of factors including wider population pressures,
or where women have specific sentence planning needs which can only be met at certain
establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Around 97% of prisoners have an origin location; i.e.
addresses that are recorded in our central IT system. If no address is given, an offender’s
committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident.
This information is included in the data provided above. Those with no recorded origin
are typically foreign nationals or those recently received into custody.</p><p> </p><p>The
numerical information provided has been drawn from administrative IT systems, which
as with any large scale recording system are subject to possible error with data entry
and processing.</p>
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