The needs of people in prison and on probation

Custody caseload

Recognized wants for folks in custody different by the kind of sentence they had been serving. Folks with a Layer 3, serving determinate sentences of lower than 12 months, tended to have increased charges of recognized wants than folks serving longer determinate sentences.  

Probably the most distinguished distinction, by sentence size, was in drug misuse want the place 74% of these serving sentences of lower than 12 months had an recognized drug misuse want, in comparison with 42% of these serving a sentence of 4 years or extra.

Word that individuals serving determinate sentences of 12 months or much less and 1 to below 4 years had decrease charges of protection at 80% and 73%, respectively.  That is in comparison with 94% protection for folks serving sentences of 4 years or extra and can have an effect on how consultant comparisons are.

Life sentences

Folks serving life sentences, with a Layer 3, had the bottom charges of recognized alcohol misuse want; 11% in comparison with 22% of the custody caseload.

IPP sentences

Folks serving IPP sentence had the best price of recognized want in 4 out of the 9 wants areas, when in comparison with all different custodial sentence sorts: relationships (96%), pondering and behavior (94%), lodging (85%) and employability (83%).

Recall

Folks on recall, with a Layer 3, had the best stage of recognized life-style and associates (95%) and attitudes (95%) want. These on recall had increased identification of all wants than these serving 1 to below 4 years, over 4 years + determinate and life sentences. The identification of lodging, employability, relationships and attitudes wants in recall prisoners is not less than 10 proportion factors increased than these with 1 to below 4-year sentences. Solely drug misuse, alcohol misuse and psychological well being wants had been recognized extra typically in sentences of lower than 12 months than in recall prisoners.

Neighborhood caseload

Once more, ranges of want different by sentence sort. 

For six of the 9 want areas, for folks with a Layer 3, charges of want had been increased for folks on licence than these on group orders and suspended sentences:

Life-style and associates want was recognized in 78% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 68% of offenders on suspended sentence orders

Attitudes want was recognized in 71% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 62% of offenders on group orders

Employability want was recognized in 55% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 39% of offenders on group orders

Lodging want was recognized in 45% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 36% of offenders on group orders

Drug Misuse want was recognized in 43% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 38% of offenders on group orders

Pondering and Behaviour want was recognized in 66% of offenders on licence in comparison with identification in 63% of offenders on group orders

The psychological well being and alcohol misuse wants had been extra generally recognized in these serving group orders (68% and 32% respectively) or suspended sentence orders (64% and 24% respectively) than these on licence (55% and 18% respectively).  

Expertise of home abuse

In custody, 68% of females had been recognized as victims of home abuse, in contrast with 10% of males. The proportion of men and women in custody recognized as victims of home abuse varies by sentence sort:

Females on recall and people on determinate sentences of lower than 12 months had been recognized most frequently as having skilled home abuse as a sufferer (78%), in comparison with 56% of females with life sentences.

Males on recall and determinate sentences of lower than 12 months had been recognized most frequently as having skilled home abuse as a sufferer (13% and 14% respectively), in comparison with 7% of males sentenced to determinate sentences over 4 years.

Females aged 30-39 had been most recognized as having skilled home abuse as a sufferer (76%), and people age 60+ least recognized (43%). This differs from males, the place these aged 40-49 are most recognized as having skilled home abuse as a sufferer (12%) and age 18-25 and 60+ had been least recognized (6%).

Locally 67% of females had been recognized as victims of home abuse, in comparison with 10% of males. There may be little variation in price of home abuse victims recognized between varieties of group sentence for males or females.

Females in the neighborhood aged 30-39 are most recognized as having skilled home abuse as a sufferer, with 74% of offenders on this age group recognized as home abuse victims, in comparison with 44% of these aged 60+. The very best prevalence recognized for males in the neighborhood is within the 30-39 and 40-49 age teams, with charges of 12%.

Conclusions

These findings are unlikely to be shocking to most readers. Nonetheless, the statistical bulletin does present a helpful benchmark for organisations to match the wants of the folks they’re working with the general cohorts in custody and the group.