Sentenced and remand prisoners

There are two types of prisoners that can be sent to prison by the court.

They are sentenced prisoners and remand prisoners and they are managed differently.

Sentenced prisoners

Sentenced prisoners have been convicted of a crime and given a jail term.

Unless they will be in prison for less than 28 days, they will be given an offender plan aiming to identify factors that may have contributed to the prisoner’s offending and ways these could be addressed in prison.

The plan may include objectives like them undertaking education, participating in rehabilitative programmes and developing work skills over the course of their sentence.

Remand prisoners

Remand prisoners are being held while awaiting trial or sentencing.

As they have not yet been convicted or sentenced by the courts, no offender plan is created for them.

They are kept separate from sentenced prisoners in units or wings only for remand prisoners.