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<p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not hold records of employees
charged with all types of criminal activity.</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>The NOMS definition
is: 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>The central record does not therefore
include all types of criminality as not all offences meet the definition.</p><p> </p><p>There
were 23 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 years, 100 hours unpaid work</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months
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>
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