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Violence in Prisons Estimator

His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service · Corrections and probation · 2025-06-05

status as stated: productionTransparency recordRisk assessment

The GOV.UK Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard entry lists His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service's Violence in Prisons Estimator at phase "production". The record says: This algorithmic tool helps prison staff to manage violence in prisons.

"This algorithmic tool helps prison staff to manage violence in prisons. The tool produces an estimate of the number of violent incidents that an offender in custody is at risk of being involved in over the next year, based on their age and previous behaviour in custody. These factors were selected due to substantial evidence…"

Status date given by the source: 2025-06-05.

Official record: gov.uk · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
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