Prison's 'appalling' figures
FIGURES that show 35 prisoners who have absconded from Ford Prison since 2004-5 are still at large in the community have been branded as 'appalling' by Nick Herbert, Arundel and South Downs MP who is also Shadow Secretary of State for Justice.
The figures, which relate to September last year, show that four prisoners absconded in 2004-5 and have still not been caught – there were a further fourteen in 2005-6, 13 in 2006-7 and four in 2007-8.
Some of the prisoners who absconded from Ford Prison have been on the run for up to four years.
There are more absconders still at large from Ford than at any other prison, and it continues to have one of the highest abscond rates of any jail in England and Wales.
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03 March 2008 3:38 PM
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