Prisoner transfers to UK prisons

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​Request 714236922

How many prisoners convicted in Jersey to sentences in HM La Moye have been transferred to UK prisons in each of the last five years? 

Which prisons have they been transferred to? 

Response

Once the decision has been made to transfer a prisoner from La Moye, the number of transfers to the UK are determined and controlled by the Population Management Unit at HMPS in the UK.

The number of transfers for the last five years is:

​The prison do not hold data on which prisons they have been transferred to. Transferred prisoners’ locations are determined by the Population Management Unit at HMPS in the UK. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.