Evidence Base
On this page we provide key statistics relating to the Voluntary and Community Sector working with offenders, as well as signposting to some key publications.
Offenders
- About 1.3m people a year are found guilty in the courts
- 1 in 5 of adult population has a criminal record
- Around 60% of adults reoffend within two years of release from prison
- The a?nnual cost of reoffending is now estimated at £13bn
- There are over 85,000 people in prison, double that of 1990
- It costs an average of £45,000 a year for a prison place??
- On average prisons hold 620 offenders
- Two-thirds of people sent to prison serve less than 12 months?
- Total prison expenditure (2009-10) was £4.825bn
- The average age of those sent to prison is 27
- 13% of the prison population are non-UK passport holders, with 165 countries represented.
- Over 70% of those in prison have mental health disorders
- There are over 12,000 people in prison on remand
- 52% of men and 71% of women in prison have no qualifications
- 65% of boys with a convicted parent, go on to offend.
