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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.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of occasions
on which additional days were awarded to prisoners by offence is publicly available
at:</p><p><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>For ease, both the number of awards and the number of days that were added
to a prisoner’s custodial time, in each year since 2011 is shown in the table below.
The information requested for 2010 is not provided due to data quality issues:</p><p>
</p><p><strong>The Number</strong> <strong>of awards where additional days were given
and total number of days of additional days, 2011 – 2018, England and Wales Can be
found in the attached Table.</strong></p>
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