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Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners who have assaulted a prison guard remain eligible for early release, and how many prisoners set to be released in the first ten tranches have previously assaulted a prison guard.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
14 Sept 2026
Answer
14 Sept 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners who have assaulted a prison guard remain eligible for early release, and how many prisoners set to be released in the first ten tranches have previously assaulted a prison guard.

  2. 14 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    We punish prisoners who are violent towards staff by giving them penalties that can include adding days onto their sentence. We doubled the maximum number of additional days that Independent Adjudicators can impose for a single incident of behaviour from ...

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Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.

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