Digest
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058002700108 |
| Date | 01 March 1980 |
| Published date | 01 March 1980 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Record Prison Population trt 1978
Weekly costs per inmate by type of
Av. daily population: 41,796 (226 above
establishment:
1977 average). High point of year was
Dispersal prison: £187;
Mid-March: 42,370, (slightly below all-
Other dosed training prisons: £91;
time peak of 42,419 in October 1976).
Local prisons/remand centres: £85;
New record of women in custody in mid-
Open prisons: £72;
November : 1,468. Cost of prison service:
Borstal: E104;
£242 million.
DCs: 9104;
Adult males discharged in 1973: proportion reconvicted within 3 years of discharge,
by sentence length
Proportion of males reconvicted within two years of discharge from borstal and
detention centres 1971-75: by age on sentence
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Female estabs: £127.
burglary and robbcry, 40, 32 and 30%
Fall in daily average of adult men in
respectively in 1978; exceptions are
open prisons from 3,170 in 1977 to 3,107.
homicide, violence against the person
At end of year there were 2,908 men in
and sexual offences where ’success’ rate
open prisons contained in 3,528 places.
has been consistently around 80%-but
Life sentence prisoners: Men-Dec. 1977:
these are a small minority of all offences;
1,311; Dec. 1978: 1,380. ~Vomen-Dec.
police manpower has grown from 72,000
1977: 42; Dec. 1978: 46.
in 1960 to 111,000 in 1979, a percentage
Young male prisoners (17-21) daily
increase of 59%, while crime has been
average: 2,330...
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