{"id":6593,"date":"2025-08-11T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonersadvice.org.uk\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:38:05","slug":"new-prison-and-probation-statistics-a-litany-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/11\/new-prison-and-probation-statistics-a-litany-of-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PRISON AND PROBATION STATISTICS A &#8216;LITANY OF DESPAIR&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New<em>&nbsp;Safety in Custody,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Prison Performance Ratings,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>HMPPS Annual Digest&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Offender Management&nbsp;<\/em>data&nbsp;have&nbsp;been described as a &#8216;litany of despair&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/safety-in-custody-statistics\">Safety in Custody<\/a>&nbsp;reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the 12 months to June 2025, there were 401 deaths in prison, an increase\u00a0of 30% from the previous 12 months. Of these, 86 deaths were self-inflicted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the 12 months to March 2025, the rate of self-harm was 899 incidents per 1,000 prisoners (77,898 incidents), up\u00a06% from the 12 months to March 2024, comprising of a 5% increase\u00a0in\u00a0male establishments and a 6% increase\u00a0in female establishments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the 12 months to March 2025, the rate of assaults was 356 assaults per 1,000 prisoners (30,846 assaults), up\u00a09% from the 12 months to March 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/prison-performance-ratings-2024-to-2025\/annual-prison-performance-ratings-guide-202425\">Annual Prison Performance Ratings 2024\/25<\/a>&nbsp;reveal:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>12 prisons were rated as outstanding (down from 13 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>48 were rated good, (down from 56 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>37 were rated as \u201cof concern\u201d (up from 35 last year).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22 were rated as of serious concern (up from 15 last year).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2024-to-march-2025\/hmpps-annual-digest-2024-to-2025--2\">HMPPS Annual Digest for 2024\/25<\/a>&nbsp;reports 26,348 incidents of drug finds in the twelve months to March 2025, 13,014 incidents of weapons finds, and 12,166 incidents of mobile phone finds &#8211; increases of 25%, 12% and 14% from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2025\/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2025\">Offender management statistics<\/a>&nbsp;report 71,625 adjudication outcomes between January and March 2025 (almost 800 per day) &#8211; a rise of 16%&nbsp;compared to the same period in 2024, as well as 10,101 licence recalls in this three month period &#8211; an increase of more than one third (36%) on January-March 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.russellwebster.com\/prison-and-probation-performance-continues-to-nose-dive\/\">click here.<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.russellwebster.com\/prison-and-probation-performance-continues-to-nose-dive\/\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New&nbsp;Safety in Custody,&nbsp;Prison Performance Ratings,&nbsp;HMPPS Annual Digest&nbsp;and&nbsp;Offender Management&nbsp;data&nbsp;have&nbsp;been described as a &#8216;litany of despair&#8217;. Safety in Custody&nbsp;reports: Annual Prison Performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ben","author_link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/author\/ben\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"New&nbsp;Safety in Custody,&nbsp;Prison Performance Ratings,&nbsp;HMPPS Annual Digest&nbsp;and&nbsp;Offender Management&nbsp;data&nbsp;have&nbsp;been described as a &#8216;litany of despair&#8217;. 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