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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not hold records
of employees found guilty of all types of criminal activity.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst
the vast majority of its staff are honest and hard working, NOMS is committed to detecting,
deterring and disrupting all corrupt behaviour by individuals working in prisons.
A dedicated NOMS Corruption Prevention Unit was set up to ensure staff corruption
is identified and tackled. As part of this work NOMS has compiled a central record
of staff convicted of criminal offences which meet the NOMS definition of corruption.</p><p>
</p><p>This definition is that corruption occurs when a person in a position of authority
or trust abuses their position for their or another person's benefit or gain. This
would include the misuse of their role in order to plan or commit a criminal act,
or a deliberate failure to act to prevent criminal behaviour.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were
<strong>23</strong> convictions for corruption-related offences during 2013. A breakdown
of the different sentences is provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sentences</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4
years 6 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4 years imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3
years imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 year 9 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1
year 4 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 year 1 month imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1
year imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8
months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4
months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 months imprisonment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12
month custodial sentence suspended for 2 years.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11 months
custodial sentence suspended for a year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9 months custodial
sentence suspended for 12 months. 200 hours community service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8
months custodial sentence suspended for 2 years and a 6 month residency order</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4
months custodial sentence suspended for 2 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4 months custodial
sentence suspended for 2 yrs. 100 hrs unpaid work</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12mths Community
Order. 150 hours unpaid work</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>100 hours community service and
12 months probation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community Order. Ordered to pay £85 costs
and £60 to complainants</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of
convictions by year for corruption-related offences is shown in the table below. The
number of convictions has remained broadly constant over the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The information provided has been drawn from live administrative data systems
which may be amended at any time. 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.</p>
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