1 - Prison

Question 1

The Prison Service is organised into regional areas…

Answer 1

The Prison Service is organised into regional areas, with responsibility for 136 prisons.

Question 2

Prison Population…

Answer 2

The Prison Service is organized into regional areas, with responsibility for 136 prisons.

As at Friday, 30 September 2016, the prison population in E/W stood at 84, 708, a slight drop from the previous year.

Question 3

NOMS…

Answer 3

With Probation, Prison constitutes the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) who have the responsibility for managing offenders from sentence to resettlement in the community.

Question 4

Cavadino and Dignan (2002)…

Answer 4

Cavadino and Dignan (2002) describe imprisonment as the most dominant method of punishment in the English penal system. This is not only because it is the most severe penalty available but also because it is used as a kind of ‘default sanction’ for not so serious but persistent offenders who have breached previous sentences in some way