The Ministry of Justice yesterday published the Offender Management Quarterly Statistics together with some annual figures. Also published yesterday were Proven re-offending statistics July 2012 to June 2013. For the key findings on OM see below:
Key Findings
- The prison population has continued to increase, but has grown by less than 1% over the last twelve months. The number of sentenced adult sex offenders continues to rise, and overall the remand, sentenced and non-criminal population have all increased slightly.
- The sentenced prison population continues to shift towards a population serving longer determinate sentences. Over the last twelve months the sentenced population serving determinate sentences of four years or more continued to increase, whereas all other shorter determinate sentenced populations have fallen.
- Prison receptions and releases for determinate sentences decreased across all sentence lengths, apart from receptions for long determinate sentences of four years or more, which increased over the last year.
- In 2014 there was the lowest number of temporary release failures in a year since 2002.Furthermore, the temporary release failure rate has more than halved since 2002.
- Both the total probation caseload and the court order caseload fell by 1% between the quarters ending December 2013 and December 2014.
- The number of offenders starting community orders fell by 8% over this period, whilst starts of suspended sentence orders with requirements attached increased by 2%. The fall in community order starts is consistent with quarter on quarter trends seen over the past couple of years, and with the trends in court sentencing statistics over the same period.
- The proportion of offenders not returned to custody by the end of March 2015, following a licence recall over the whole period 1999 to the end of December 2014, remained constant with only 6 in 1,000 prisoners not being returned to custody.
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