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<p>The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents
of prisoner rule-breaking have consequences. In cases which the prison governor deems
the rule-breaking to be sufficiently serious an Independent Adjudicator, appointed
by the Chief Magistrate, can attend a prison to award additional days to the prisoner’s
custodial time left to serve. Where an act of violence amounts to a criminal offence,
prisoners should will be investigated by the police and face serious sanctions.</p><p>
</p><p>Information on the proportion of adjudications which resulted in no additional
days being added to a prisoner's time in custody by offence is not routinely extracted
from the adjudications database, as the primary purpose of the database is to report
on the volume of punishments imposed. Prisoners can receive more than one punishment
for the same offence, so in order to collect this specific information on prisoners,
a matching exercise using prison population and adjudication databases would be required
to identify each individual prisoner who was sanctioned under the Prison Rules. As
a result, the data could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information
on the number of adjudications for violence which resulted in additional days to a
prisoner’s custodial time to serve is publicly available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>The publicly available data also provides information on the number of adjudications
by gender and adjudication offence. See Table A5.1 at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/796921/adjudications-2018.ods</p><p>On
the prison population for 30 June 2018, select table A1.1 using the link below:</p><p><a
href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820163/population-30June2019-annual.ods"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820163/population-30June2019-annual.ods</a>.</p><p>The
number of adjudications per 100 male and female prisoners can be calculated from tables
A5.1 and A1.1, but this information has been attached to this response for ease.</p><p>
</p><p>Information on the number of awards of additional days where an adjudication
involving violence against staff and prisoners was proven and the average number of
additional days added for 2011 – 2018 is also attached to this response. Please note
that due to data quality issues, 2010 figures have not been provided and therefore
no conclusion can be drawn for the annual 2010 data and no comparison can be made
with 2010 figures.</p>
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