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Sep 9, 2024 · Some prisoners will now serve 40% of their sentence in prison rather than 50%. The remainder of their sentence will continue to be served in the community under the supervision of probation. This ...
Jun 12, 2019 · But, crucially, the prisoner’s death must be expected “very soon,” and HM Prisons and Probation Service considers this to be within three months.1 Jim Burtonwood, a palliative care specialist, GP, and MSc student at Cardiff University, who led the research, said the current rules meant that timescales often became too tight for a successful application for early release if an ...
- Gareth Iacobucci
- 2019
- Purpose of This Document
- Ministry of Justice and The Public Sector Equality Duty
- Policy C: Amend The Way That Discretionary Life Sentence Tariffs Are Calculated
- Policy H: Changes to Mappa Provisions
- Equality Considerations Applicable to All Policies
- Annex A
This document has been prepared to assist the Secretary of State for Justice in complying with the Public Sector Equality Duty in relation to the following measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill (now Act) and to assist Parliament in its scrutiny of these measures: a) amend the proportion of the sentence that is served in c...
Under the Equality Act 2010[footnote 1], when exercising its functions, the MoJ has an ongoing legal duty (PSED) to pay due regard to the need to: 1. eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other prohibited conduct under the Equality Act 2010; 2. advance equality of opportunity between different groups of persons who sha...
Policy summary
A discretionary life sentence can be given for offences which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, including offences such as robbery, rape or manslaughter. The court may impose a discretionary life sentence where it is justified by the seriousness of the offence and, in the court’s opinion, the offender poses a significant risk to the public of serious harm by committing further specified offences. A discretionary life sentence can also be given where an offender has committed a se...
Availability of data
We are not able to identify by protected characteristic the cohort of offenders affected by this policy.
Equality considerations
We have considered whether there are any disproportionate effects of this proposal. Although the majority of those receiving discretionary life sentences are male, we again believe that the change to the way tariffs for these sentences are calculated is necessary to achieve consistency with other parts of the sentencing framework and that any disproportionate effect on male offenders is justified in the circumstances.
Policy summary
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) are the set of arrangements through which the Police, Probation and Prison Services work together with other agencies to manage the risks posed by violent, sexual or in this case, terrorist offenders under supervision in the community in order to protect the public. As part of the Government’s response to the terror attack at Fishmongers’ Hall in 2019, the Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary asked Jonathan Hall QC, the Independent Reviewer of...
Identification of risk
One of the measures proposed in this Act will provide a new discretionary route for those assessed as posing a risk of involvement in terrorist related activity, so that they may be MAPPA managed, regardless of the offence for which they have been convicted. All offenders under Probation Supervision are assessed using a structured risk assessment tool, the Offender Assessment System (OASys). It combines the best of actuarial methods of prediction with structured professional judgement to prov...
Availability of data
There is no MAPPA data available by protected characteristics. However, as these changes will primarily affect those convicted of terrorist or terrorist-connected offences, we have included the most recent available data related to terrorism arrests and convictions. The table below provides a summary of the current equalities data for England, Wales and Scotland as published on 9 December 2021 in the Home Office “Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000” statistical bulletin to...
Discrimination arising from disability and duty to make reasonable adjustments
In so far as these changes extend to disabled offenders, we believe that the policies are proportionate, having regard to their aims. It would not be reasonable to make an adjustment for disabled offenders so that they are out of scope of the proposals, but it remains important to continue to make reasonable adjustments for disabled offenders to ensure appropriate support is given. We do not consider that any adjustments are required for disabled people over and above the ones already in plac...
Harassment and victimisation
We do not consider there to be a risk of harassment or victimisation within the meaning of the Equality Act as a result of these changes.
Advancing equality of opportunity
We have had regard to this aspect of the equality duty but do not consider that these changes will affect the advancement of equality of opportunity, although there will be positive impacts for victims which may affect certain groups more.
The following data has been extracted from the Criminal Justice Statistics Sentencing Tool It provides data on the sex, ethnicity and age of adults given a standard determinate sentence (SDS) up to 2020. It shows those given sentences of 4 years or more and those given sentences under 4 years, in each case further identifying those convicted of an ...
Dec 11, 2023 · Insights. Inquest concerning a death following a prisoner release from custody. 11 December 2023. 1) The majority of inquests involving prison law concern deaths which occurred whilst the deceased was incarcerated. Occasionally however, the situation arises where a person who has been released from custody dies from unnatural causes shortly ...
probation after release from prison (Ministry of Justice, 2019a) Self-inflicted deaths Between 2010/11 and 2018/19, 662 people died a self-inflicted death after leaving prison (MoJ, 2019a). Disproportionately this increase is in the number of self-inflicted deaths amongst people on post-release supervision.
Mar 3, 2023 · Number of deaths increased from the previous 12-month period: In the 12 months to December 2021, there were 371 deaths in prison custody, an increase of 17% from 318 deaths the previous 12 months ...
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2020/21. Deaths due to natural causes account for 38% of all deaths in the community in 2020/21, an increase from 32% of total deaths in 2019/20, and remain the most common cause of death. This increase in deaths due to natural causes in 2020/21 partly reflects deaths from Covid-19 (with further information on these below).
