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are as follows:-
-war years
Proporti Daily Avege Population
Year
Daily Average Population
Escapes
Average 5 years, 1934 to 1938
8,549
5
1 in 1,708
1939
...
...
8,306
29
1 in 287
1945
11,930
51
1 in
234
1946
12,472
44
1 in
284
1947
13,938
47
1 in
296
No account is taken here of escapes from outside parties or open prisons: these are an inevitable risk which must be accepted, and they are in fact remarkably few.
B.
Extract from the Report of the Commissioners of Prisons for the Year 1950
(Cmd. 8356) (Chapter IV: paragraph 10)
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Security
10. In our Report for 1947 we drew attention to the number of escapes in post-war years, and the effort which was being made to re-establish the former standards of security. We are glad to be able to report a steady improvement: the number of escapes from secure conditions in 1950 was less than half the average of the preceding five years.
The numbers of escapes from security conditions in pre-war and post-war years were as follows:-
Proportion to Daily Average Population
Year
Daily Average Population
Escapes
Average 5 years, 1934 to 1938
8,549
5
1 in 1,708
1939
8,306
29
1 in 287
1945
11,930
...
1946
12,472
1947,
13,938
1948
16,120
1949
15,810
1950
16,240
55958
51
1 in
234
44
1 in
284
47
1 in
296
49
1 in
329
41
1 in
385
22
1 in 738
No account is taken of escapes from outside parties or open prisons.
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