Prisonthefacts. The Cost of Prisons | Focus Prisoner Education. Overcrowding Our prison system was not built to hold nearly the amount of prisoners it currently does, let alone the predicted increasing numbers pushed even further by a global recession. Well over 70,000 people are being held in a system designed to hold around 50,000. Although the capacity of the penal system is being increased, the rise in the number of people within the system is outstripping the rate at which new places can be provided. What price lack of freedom? It costs £65,000 to imprison a person in this country once police, court costs and all the other steps are taken into account. Healthcare Although prisoners are entitled to NHS care as with any other British citizen, the facilities within the prison system, simply because each prison cannot have its own hospital, mean that prisoners often have to be moved from one prison to another, or to an outside hospital for treatment.
Retraining and employment versus reoffending. Prison Reform Trust creating a just, humane and effective penal system. Statistics about women in prison. Research on Prisoners Families Update. Prisoner Category | offendersfamilieshelpline. Why are prisoners categorised? Some time after sentencing, adult male prisoners are assigned to the correct security category and allocated to an appropriate prison. Categorisation is based on the level of risk a prisoner might pose to the public or national security should they escape and the likelihood of their making attempts to do so. What are the categories? There are four different security categories: Category A – Category A prisoners are those that would pose the most threat to the public, the police or national security should they escape.
Security conditions in category A prisons are designed to make escape impossible for these prisoners. Category B – Category B prisoners do not need to be held in the highest security conditions but, for category B prisoners, the potential for escape should be made very difficult. How are female prisoners and young offenders categorised? Unless they have been deemed category A then female prisoners and young offenders are not categorised. Your rights - Classification, Categorisation and Allocation. Category A prisoners also have an escape risk classification based upon their ability and willingness to escape. The classifications are exceptional, high and standard escape risk. Women prisoners and young offenders may be made Category A, but normally they will either be simply allocated to open or closed conditions.
Category A prisoners have greater restrictions upon them for security reasons, and their visitors will be vetted by the police on behalf of the prison authorities. These prisoners are entitled to a formal, annual review of their security categorisation during which the reports prepared on them will be disclosed and the prisoner invited to make written representations to the decision-making committee.
Legal advice and assistance can be sought in making these written representations. The governor makes categorisation decisions (other than for category A prisoners). A prisoner can make a complaint to the Ombudsman if the decision is considered to be unfair. Allocation. Special Reports | Prisons. Prison-costs-summary-10-11.pdf. Philip Seymour Hoffman and a double standard over drugs | Simon Jenkins | Com...
Anyone who saw Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film A Late Quartet could sense an accident on its way to happening. We now know that the actor and the tortured violinist he portrayed were close to the same person. Acting is a dangerous calling, pushing its practitioners back and forth over the border of unreality. Hoffman's death has been universally greeted as a tragedy. He struggled with addiction, seemed to recover, relapsed and died of what appears to have been an accidental overdose. The world of cinema mourns. Does the law also mourn?
We cannot jail or otherwise hurl beyond the pale all who use drugs. So what do we do? There are no winners in the illegality of drugs, except the lucky ones who make money from it without getting caught. Prison-costs-summary-10-11. Prisoner Category | offendersfamilieshelpline. BPPdfDownload. Kevin Marsh: The real cost of prison. In 1993, the UK prison population was 44,000. Today it is over 83,000. This trend is set to continue: the government has recently announced an extra £3.8bn to create 20,000 more prison places. In the UK it is estimated that each new prison place costs £119,000 and that the annual average cost for each prisoner exceeds £40,000. Such huge public expenditure should not be spent without question. But where value for money models are widely applied in other state services like healthcare, they have rarely been used to test the value of the criminal justice sector. It might be true that incarceration reduces re-offending, but the cost of the prison system still has to justify that reduction.
These are the questions I and my colleagues from the Matrix Knowledge Group have sought to address in our latest research. Residential drug treatment programmes, for example, offer a £200,000 net benefit over prison over the lifetime of an offender. The Cost of Prisons | Focus Prisoner Education. The real cost of prison - Inside Time Newspaper. Back By Kevin Marsh, from insidetime issue May 2009 In 1993, the UK prison population was 51,880. Today it is over 92,400. This trend is set to continue: the government has recently announced an extra £3.8bn to create 20,000 more prison places In the UK it is estimated that each new prison place costs £119,000 and that the annual average cost for each prisoner exceeds £40,000.
An economic approach to assessing the value for money of prison would involve comparing the cost of prison against its benefits. It is reasonable to presume that prison costs more than community-based alternatives. These are the questions Matrix Knowledge Group sought to address in a number of recent pieces of research. The first of these, The Economic Case For and Against Prison, compared the cost of prison against its rehabilitative and incapacitation effects on re-offending. Residential drug treatment programmes, for example, offer a £200,000 net benefit over prison over the lifetime of an offender. Back to top. CATEGORISATIONMale.