Foreign national inmates at Jurby Prison

Summary

The requester asked for detailed monthly statistics on foreign national inmates at Jurby Prison over the last five years, including demographics, detention status, and offence types. The Department of Home Affairs disclosed general gender and crime category statistics but refused the specific foreign national data, stating it is not recorded for statistical purposes.

Key Facts

• The Department of Home Affairs does not hold statistics specifically on foreign national inmates.
• Country of origin is recorded upon reception but is not used for statistical reporting.
• The authority provided a spreadsheet containing gender statistics and crime committed statistics.
• The crime statistics provided are limited to categories: Domestic Violence, Drugs, Miscellaneous, Property, Sexual, Vehicle/Driving, and Violence.
• The request was received on 2025-08-28 and the response was issued on 2025-09-24.

Data Disclosed

• 2025-08-28
• 2025-09-24
• 4901038
• 3 pages
• 1 document
• last 5 years
• August 2025

Exemptions Cited

• Information not held by the public authority

Original Request

For each of the last 5 years, by month upto and including August 2025 provide the following information: total number of inmates at Jurby Prison: Number of men and women inmates Number of foreign nationals (people who are not Manx , British Citizens or Republic of Ireland citizens) For foreign national inmates/detainees: Number held on remand by month Number held subject to any form of immigration detention or pending removal from the Isle of Man Number convicted of an offence and serving a sentence of a) less than 6 months duration and b) more than 6 month duration Number resident in Jurby under any other reason (eg transfer from uk for temporary visit, own safety, lack of release arrangements etc) Number convicted of: A) immigration or modern slavery- type offence B) offence relating to violence or causing physical harm to a person C) Offence relating to drug use or importation or money laundering D) offence related to theft, fraud or money laundering E) offence related to property damage F) offence related to driving G)sexual offences including online sexual offences H) other offences List of inmates Nationalities over 5 year period (not broken down by offence, sex, or date)

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Freedom of Information Coordinator DHA Headquarters Tromode Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 5AP

Telephone: (01624) 687017 Web address: www.gov.im/dha
Email: DPO-DHA@dha.gov.im

Our ref: 4901038 24 September 2025

Dear ###

We write further to your request, received 28 August 2025, which states:

"For each of the last 5 years, by month upto and including August 2025 provide the following information:
total number of inmates at Jurby Prison:
Number of men and women inmates
Number of foreign nationals (people who are not Manx , British Citizens or Republic of Ireland citizens)

For foreign national inmates/detainees:
Number held on remand by month
Number held subject to any form of immigration detention or pending removal from the Isle of Man
Number convicted of an offence and serving a sentence of a) less than 6 months duration and b) more than 6 month duration
Number resident in Jurby under any other reason (eg transfer from uk for temporary visit, own safety, lack of release arrangements etc)
Number convicted of:
A) immigration or modern slavery- type offence
B) offence relating to violence or causing physical harm to a person
C) Offence relating to drug use or importation or money laundering
D) offence related to theft, fraud or money laundering
E) offence related to property damage
F) offence related to driving
G)sexual offences including online sexual offences
H) other offences
List of inmates Nationalities over 5 year period (not broken down by offence, sex, or date)"

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find some of the information that you have requested. The Department is unable to provide statistics on foreign national inmates and detainees. This is because the prison does not record foreign nationals as a statistic.

A country of origin is requested from each new prisoner upon reception, but this may not accurately reflect an individual’s current citizenship status and is not used for statistical reporting purposes.
Please see attached the spreadsheet which contains two tables, one with gender statistics and the other contains crime committed statistics for the following categories: Domestic Violence, Drugs, Miscellaneous, Property Sexual, Vehicle/Driving and Violence, which are the only categories that the Department Document.

Please quote the reference number 4901038 in any future communications.

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I will now close your request as of this date.