2008-09 Statistics On Prisons In Scotland

Scotland’s Chief Statistician today published Prison Statistics Scotland 2008-09.

This contains information on the Scottish prison population, including daily average population by type of custody and establishment, characteristics of prisoners, and numbers of receptions to / liberations from penal establishments.

The main findings are:

• In 2008-09, the average daily prison population was 7,835. This represents an increase of six per cent over the previous year, 31 per cent over the past ten years, and continues the upward trend observed since 2000-01.
• The majority of the prison population are sentenced prisoners, with a daily average of 6,156 in 2008-09, six per cent more than in 2007-08.
• The most recent average daily figure for prisoners held on remand was 1,678 for 2008-09. This is an increase of eight per cent over the previous year’s figure of 1,560, indicating an on-going rising trend in the remand population.
• On June 30, 2008, the crime category with the largest population of sentenced prisoners was non-sexual violent crime (37 per cent), followed by drugs-related crimes (14 per cent). There is no substantive change from the previous year.
• The 2008-09 average daily female prison population was 413, an 11 per cent increase from 371 in 2007-08. The female prison population has shown a disproportionate increase of 97 per cent over the past ten years.

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