The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has just released a report called How Fair is Britain. It is a wide ranging and detailed report covering a range of themes :- Life, Legal and Physical Security, Health, Education, Employment and Standard of Living. It is the first of what will be a series an ongoing 3 yearly review reports (Triennial Reviews) assessing levels of inequality in Britain. Where possible it presents statistics for both England and Wales and Scotland.
The reports includes some interesting statistics directly relating to crime, criminal justice and imprisonment. These are mainly in Chapter 7 - Legal Security and Chapter 8 - Physical Security.
Whilst we are perhaps used to reading about disproportionately high levels of imprisonment of people from ethnic minorities in the US it's not so often highlighted for Britain.
However, from this report The Guardian has highlighted that:
- there are 'more black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US',
- that the ethnic minority populaiton in prison has doubled in last decade (the EHRC report states numbers increased from '11,332 in 1998 to 22,421 in 2008' (EHRC, 2010, 172) although the rate of increase slowed from 2005).
- that the ethnic minority groups make up 25% of the England and Wales prison population (the report highlights these groups make up 11% of the general population).
For the Guardian article see here:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england
The full report can be accessed here:-
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/key-projects/triennial-review/full-report-and-evidence-downloads/
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