NCJ Number
139655
Date Published
1992
Length
4 pages
Annotation
Statistics on remands in custody for 1991 and 92 in the United Kingdom address outcomes; breakdown by ethnic group; time spent awaiting trial; bail hostels, bail support, and bail information schemes; and the projected remand population.
Abstract
In 1991 an average of 10,189 inmates were awaiting trial or sentence in penal establishments and police cells in England and Wales. This constituted 22 percent of the total average prison population. Of these inmates 8,246 (7,954 males and 292 females) were awaiting trial, and 1,943 (1,846 males and 97 females) were awaiting sentence. A decade previously (1981) the average daily number of remand inmates was 7,030, which was 16 percent of the average prison population. In 1990, 59,620 people were received into custody before trial or sentence. The outcome was not recorded in 27,215 cases. Of the remainder, 981 (3 percent) were found not guilty or the case was not pursued; 25 percent received a noncustodial sentence, and 72 percent received custodial sentences. An analysis of remand trends since the mid-1970's found that the annual number of remands in custody is now lower than it was before the bail reforms of the mid-1970's. Despite this, the average daily number of remand inmates is now much higher than it was then due to the increasing lengths of time spent on remand. The average length of time spent in custody by an unconvicted male inmate was 54 days in 1990 compared with 36 days in 1978. Home Office Statistical Bulletin No. 10/92 projects an increase in the remand population from 10,200 in 1991 to 14,600 in the year 2000, a 43-percent increase.