Askham Grange
HMP/YOI Askham Grange is part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Area and contributes to the delivery of the Key Objectives of the Prison Service. It delivers a national service to women prisoners (residents) and young offenders and offers the opportunity for up to ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. It is an open prison, which facilitates a comprehensive resettlement regime for long and, increasingly, short-stay residents. Key to the delivery of this regime and of primary focus to Askham Grange is the maintenance of decent and respectful relationships between all who live, work and visit here, and the community benefit of pro-social modelling. Support in achieving positive family relationships and learning is provided in parallel with educational and work skills and personal development.
Address:
Askham Richard
YORK
YO23 3FT
Tel: 01904 772000
Fax: 01904 772001 (General)
Governor: Alec McCrystal
Type of Accommodation: Dormitory
Operational Capacity: 131 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Maximum 2 years to PED. No more than 5 years to non-parole date. Not within 3 months of parole reports commencing. Must have completed identified offence-focused work. Outstanding hospital appointments may be moved to York (both Healthcare departments to arrange).
No medical condition that requires 24-hour supervision. Those currently on a detox programme only in consultation with Askham Grange Healthcare.
Brockhill
Local female, Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre which opened in November 1991 replacing HMRC Brockhill.
It is purpose built and designed to hold prisoners either on remand or awaiting appearances at Magistrates or Crown Court or convicted sentenced prisoners.
Address:
Hewell Lane
Redditch
Worcestershire
B97 6RD
Tel: 01527 552650
Fax: 01527 552651
Governor: Alison Gomme
Accommodation: Mostly Single cells. Some dormitory accommodation on YO wing. Night sanitation system.
Operational Capacity: 150 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: All categories.
Regime: Domestic, kitchen and gardens work, Education, Detox programme, Hairdressing VTC.
Bronzefield
HMP Bronzefield is a modern purpose built prison for women which opened in June 2004. It performs the function of a local prison, accepting prisoners direct from the courts and is run by United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS).
Address:
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford
Middlesex
TW15 3JZ
Tel: 01784 425690
Fax: 01784 425691
Director: Janine McDowell
Controller: Alan Thurlby
Operational Capacity: 450 from 1st November 2004
Type of Accommodation: Accommodation is provided in three Houseblocks with mostly single cells. There is also a unit for twelve mothers with babies. There are inpatient facilities in the Healthcare Centre.
Reception Criteria: Bronzefield performs the role of a local prison, taking prisoners directly from the courts. Some sentenced adults may serve some of their sentence at Bronzefield.
Regime:
Workshops: Opening – Link Centre
Resettlement: Opening – The Klean Academy
Negotiating - Reed International Data Inputting and Packaging
Negotiating - Barnardos’ Jewellery Workshop
Buckley Hall
Buckley Hall was, at its reopening, the fourth contracted out prison in the UK, and the first privately managed Cat C establishment holding medium security prisoners. Group 4 Prison Services operated it but after a tendering process in June 2000 the establishment reverted to Prison Service control. The establishment is managed under a Service Level Agreement, monitored by the Compliance Monitor, reporting to the Regional Offender Manager, CCU and the Area Manager. In November 2001 it was announced that the prison would re-role to a closed female training prison. The first female prisoners arrived in April 2002. As a result of population pressures in the male estate, it was decided to re-role the establishment back to a male category C prison in September 2005. The male prisoners began arriving on December 5th 2005.
Address:
Buckley Hall Road
Rochdale
Lancs
OL12 9DP
Tel: 01706 514300
Fax: 01706 514399
Governor: Mick Regan
Accommodation: 3 units (2 of 66, 1 of 50). Care and Separation Unit for 10. No VPU. There is full integral sanitation, in-cell TV. Pin phones available for use at agreed times. Pool, table football and table tennis facilities, board games and video library are available. No cookers, homemade audiocassettes, or caged birds allowed.
Reception criteria: Sentenced male category C prisoners, primarily from the Manchester area, who are willing to address offending behaviour and engage in programmes with a view to progression to category D status / HDC. Due to the residential units being on a 1:15 incline; we are unable to accept prisoners with mobility or heart problems. Prisoners must be within 9 months of their Parole Eligibility Date.
Operational Capacity: 264 as of 31st January 2006
Downview
Downview is a closed prison for women at Sutton in Surrey, converted from the former nurses' home of Banstead Hospital.
The prison opened in 1989 as a category C Male Prison. In September 2001 Downview re-roled to a closed prison for adult women and in December 2004 a 16 bed juvenile unit (The Josephine Butler Unit) opened for young female offenders (both remand and convicted) aged from 15-18 in partnership with the Youth Justice Board.
Address:
HM Prison Downview
Sutton Lane
Sutton
Surrey
SM2 5PD
Tel: 020 8929 3300
Fax: 020 8929 3301
Governor: Ian Murray
Operational Capacity: 358 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Not 24 hrs Health Centre cover, no de-tox programme for adults. Adult sentenced females and juveniles – all categories.
Accommodation: All accommodation has integral sanitation and in-cell electrics for televisions. Mostly single cells.
Regime: The prison provides a positive regime with a variety of vocational training courses and NVQ opportunities contributing to a positive experience for prisoners, offering a variety of opportunities to improve learning and training skills and offending behaviour programmes to help reduce the risk of re-offending upon release. A dedicated resettlement unit provides opportunities for work and education outside the prison.
East Sutton Park
First opened as a borstal in 1946. The prison is a Grade II listed country mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent, and is used to hold both adult and young offender women in open conditions.
Address:
HMP/YOI East Sutton Park
Sutton Valence
Maidstone
Kent
ME17 3DF
Tel: 01622 845000
Fax: 01622 845001 / 842825
Governor: George Carruthers
Operational Capacity: 100 as of 15th August 2005
Accommodation: Dormitory conditions. 21 rooms catering for between 2 and 13
Reception Criteria: All risk assessed as suitable for open. Do not accept arson past or present offences, as a working prison we take all except labour 3, anyone requiring full time medical cover or anyone locate flat as all our accommodation is on, or above ground floor.
Regime: Includes provision of farms and gardens and training courses, a Listener Scheme, physical education, and various community based programmes. There are currently 25 women working outside of the prison and there are plans to increase this up to 50.
Eastwood Park
Eastwood Park is a female closed local prison. Opened after refurbishment on 1 March 1996 when staff and inmates were brought from Pucklechurch. Previously was male juvenile Detention Centre then a Young Offenders Institution.
Address:
Falfield
Wotton-under-Edge
Glos
GL12 8DB
Tel: 01454 382100
Fax: 01454 382101
Governor: Tim Beeston
Accommodation: Cells
Operational Capacity: 362 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements. The prison accepts all female prisoners in its catchment area.
Regime: The regime at Eastwood Park is very diverse and includes domestic cleaning work, catering (to NVQ level 2); horticulture (NVQ level 2); maintenance, hairdressing and beauty (NVQ level 2); industrial cleaning; community sports leaders and other sports awards; Job Clubs; offending behaviour programmes and many education courses ranging from basic literacy and numeracy to Open University post graduate degrees.
Health care: Eastwood Park has type 3 health care centre status. There is 24 hours healthcare provision and 12 beds are available in the health care centre.
Drugs strategy: Prisoners with a drug problem are identified by a variety of means including initial reception screening by health care centre staff, observations by other staff and self-referrals.Arrangements for detoxification, rehabilitation, treatment, education, and counselling include educational classes run by the Bristol Drugs Project and Narcotics Anonymous.
Foston Hall
Foston Hall is a Closed Female prison, which was originally the hunting estate of the Broadhurst family. The present Hall was built in 1863 but the estate is 14th Century and many parts of the 17th Century house remain. The Prison Service acquired the Hall and grounds in 1953. During its Prison Service history Foston Hall has been a Detention Centre, an immigration centre, and finally before its closure during 1996 a satellite of Sudbury prison.
It was re-opened on 31 July 1997, following major refurbishment and building work, as a closed female establishment. A, B & C wings are purpose built RTUs, each holding 40 prisoners. Each room has intergral sanitation and a shower. D wing is cellular accommodation comprising double and treble bedded rooms holding a total of 44 prisoners. Each room has intergral sanitation. E wing comprises three rooms holding a total of 10 prisoners.
The prison also has a Health Care Centre with five inpatient beds.
Address:
Foston
Derby
Derbyshire
DE65 5DN
Tel: 01283 584300
Fax: 01283 584301
Governor: Miss Paddy Scriven
Operational Capacity: 274 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Includes provision for gardens, work and textile workshop places.
Additionally the prison runs the following programmes/initiatives:
Enhanced Thinking Skills
Focus on Violence; a course for violent offenders being run, in conjunction with Derbyshire Probation Service
Possibilities Towards Survival; a NSPCC-approved course dealing with childhood abuse
Drug Self-Help Group as part of the establishments Drug Strategy
Samaritans trained Listeners scheme
Prison! Me! No Way! initiative started with local schools and groups
A full-time Hairdressing Training Salon.
Holloway
Originally constructed by the City of London and opened in 1852 as a mixed prison, became all female circa 1902. Completely rebuilt between 1971-1985 on the same site.
Address:
HMP and YOI Holloway
Parkhurst Road
London
N7 0NU
Tel: 020 7979 4400
Fax: 020 7979 4401
Governor: Tony Hassall
Operational Capacity: 478 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Single rooms with some dormitory accommodation.
Reception Criteria: All adult and young offenders remanded or sentenced by the courts with the exception of Category A.
Regime: Regime includes both full-time and part-time education, Skills training workshops, British Industrial Cleaning Science BICS, gardens and painting. There is a fully integrated resettlement / induction strategy, which identifies individual needs and provides a structured approach for advice and guidance on such issues as housing, benefits, training and community volunteering programmes.
There are also offending behaviour programmes: FOR a change, SDP, Short duration Programme, anger management, assertion training, and domestic violence. Other programmes include desk top publishing and individual needs based work with a variety of partnership agencies. Other special features are welfare to work, Holloway befrienders scheme, listeners' schemes, programme development and community projects.
Low Newton
Low Newton is situated approximately 4 miles south west of Durham, and was purpose-built as a Remand Centre in 1965 with accommodation for 65 males and 11 females. Additional accommodation was provided in 1975 and the Centre then had a CNA of 215, though was normally overcrowded. Low Newton accommodated both male and female young persons and adult women until September 1998, when a re-role refurbishment programme commenced. It is now an all female prison. Low Newton serves the courts in the catchment area from the Scottish Borders to North Yorkshire across to North Cumbria. All remand females aged 18 and over are held (apart from Category A prisoners) and all sentenced female prisoners 18 or over can serve out their sentence, including lifers.
Address:
Brasside
Durham
DH1 5YA
Tel: 0191 3764000
Fax: 0191 3764001
Governor: Andrea Whitfield
Accommodation: Cells
Operational Capacity: 310 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Low Newton is a closed, female prison and young offender institution. It holds a small number of juveniles and life sentenced prisoners.
Morton Hall
Previously an RAF base, Morton Hall was re-opened as an open prison in 1985. New accommodation was opened in 1996 and the prison was reroled to a Semi-Open Women's Prison and refitted in 2001 to provide dedicated facilities for women offenders. Two ready to use units opened in 2002 increasing the capacity of the prison.
In January 2004 a new 39 Intermittent Custody Centre opened, this is an alternative to full time custody where individuals report to custody weekends or weekdays. The purpose of this unit is to reduce negative outcomes of custody such as, loss of employment, loss of accommodation and family disintegration.
The prison is now developing as a specialist foreign national centre (with around 50 nationalities represented) and is also developing its own resettlement regime for prisoners who will be released into this country.
Address:
Swinderby
Lincoln
LN6 9PT
Tel: 01522 666 700
Fax: 01522 666 750
Governor: Damian Evans
Accommodation: All women have single rooms and in three of the units women have their own pass key.
Operational Capacity: 392 as of 19th September 2005
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements: Morton Hall is a semi-open female prison.
New Hall
New Hall is a women's prison, which was originally used as a satellite prison for nearby Wakefield Prison. The open prison system seems to have originated from an experiment in 1933,when due to an increase in the prison population and a lack of suitable employment for prisoners, 65 acres of woodland and about 9 acres of arable land about 7 miles from Wakefield were released for clearance and cultivation by a workforce of prisoners from HMP Wakefield.
The success of this outside work party led to the opening in 1936 of New Hall camp, a prison for the employment of prisoners from HM Prison Wakefield. New Hall was reroled in 1961 as a closed Detention Centre when the ‘short sharp shock' regime for male young offenders was introduced.
In 1987 New Hall was again reroled to a Women's Prison. Presently New Hall holds adult female prisoners of all categories, Young Offenders and Juveniles on Detention and Training Orders. There is also a 40 bed semi-open unit for adult females.
Address:
HMP & YOI New Hall
Dial Wood
Flockton
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF4 4XX
Tel: 01924 844 200
Fax: 01924 844 201
Governor: Sara Snell
Operational Capacity: 395 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Mainly cellular, 5 dormitories holding 21 prisoners, Mother & Baby unit - 9 rooms, 19 bed Healthcare Centre.
Regime: New Hall provides both full and part time education including, Business Administration, NVQ Hairdressing, GNVQ Art, GNVQ Health & Social Care, OCN Lifeskills, Food Hygiene, Literacy & Numeracy.
· 4 Workshops – Assembly work & Light Textiles AQA unit Achievement awards.
· Catering NVQ Food Preparation.
· Gardens NPTC Skills for Working Life Qualifications.
· P.E. course CSLA, NVQ Sport & Recreation, AQA Unit achievement awards.
· Offending Behaviour Courses including, ETS, Substance Use SDDP, Assertiveness & Decision Making, AVP (Avoidance of violence prog.)
· Employment & Careers Advice, Jobcentre plus, Connexions, SOVA Project.
Send
Originally a Smallpox Isolation Hospital, Send first became a Prison in 1962 when it opened as a Junior Detention Centre.
It remained as such until 1987 when it was re-classified as a category C Adult Male Training Prison.
Re-rolled in 1998 and completely rebuilt by 1999, Send currently operates as a closed Female Training Prison. It also houses a 20 bed Drug Treatment Unit (RAPT Programme), an 80 bed Resettlement Unit and a Therapeutic Community with a capacity of 40.
Address:
HMP Send
Ripley Road
Woking
Surrey
GU23 7LJ
Tel: 01483 471000
Fax: 01483 471001
Governor: Brian Ritchie
Operational Capacity: 215 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Wings A-C combine to form the Main Block of the Prison, A-Wing housing VDTs and the Therapeutic Community. The RAPT programme is run out of a separate Unit, D-Wing, with accommodation for 20. E and F Wings, again, separated from the main Prison, make up the Resettlement Unit.
Regimes: Send features an Education department running Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Admin and Hairdressing, a Farms & Gardens work party offering Floristry NVQs, an industrial workshop, and a recycling and painting party run by the Works department. In addition to this, opportunities for those on the Resettlement Unit include voluntary work, attending College courses and Work Placements in the outside community. This is subject to stringent eligibility testing and the keeping of a signed Compact agreement between Prisoners and the Resettlement Staff.
Styal
The main prison buildings were built as an orphanage in the 1890s which closed in 1956. The site opened as a women's prison in 1962 when female prisoners from Strangeways were transferred in.
From 1983 Young Offenders were admitted and in 1999 a wing was added to accommodate unsentenced female prisoners following the closure of Risley's remand centre, increasing the prison size by 60%.
The prison was featured in the BBC2 documentary ‘Women on the Edge – the Truth about Styal Prison' on February 27th 2006.
Address:
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 4HR
Tel: 01625 553000
Fax: 01625 553001
Governor: Steve Hall
Accommodation: Dormitories and Cells
Operational Capacity: 469 as of 31st July 2006
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements: Styal accepts adult female prisoners and, in some cases, young offenders. There are facilities for mothers with babies up to age 18 months. Remand prisoners are received direct from the courts. Transfers of prisoners from other prisons must be arranged in advance.
Bullwood Hall
HMP & YOI Bullwood Hall was originally built in the 1960s as a female borstal.
Address:
High Road
Hockley
Essex
SS5 4TE
Tel: 01702 562 800
Fax: 01702 562 801
Governor: Mukhtar Poselay
Operational Capacity: 171 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Regime includes education (full/part-time and evening classes), workshops, training courses, farms and gardens, and a works department. There are various types of offending behaviour groups e.g. drug importers' group. Other special features are available such as fashion and hairdressing courses, and the support unit which has been set up on E Wing to help those who have difficulty in coming to terms with prison life.
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Cookham Wood
Cookham Wood is a closed prison for adult women. It was built in the 1970's, originally for young men, but its use was changed to meet the growing need for secure female accommodation at the time.
Address:
HMP Cookham Wood
Rochester
Kent
ME1 3LU
Tel: 01634 202 500
Fax: 01634 202 501
Governor: Ed Tullet
Accommodation: Single Cells
Operational Capacity: 185 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Prisoners are mainly employed in the workshops (tailoring and contract work), on the gardens, painting party and in domestic work such as kitchen and cleaning. Many women are also on part-time education, which includes improving literacy and numeracy where needed. There are several offending behaviour groups, run either by prison staff or probation, as well as support groups (such as the foreign nationals group) and self-help groups.
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Peterborough
HMP Peterborough opened in Spring 2005. It is a Category B prison and the first purpose-built prison to house both men and women.
Peterborough is run by United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS).
Address:
HMP Peterborough
Saville Road
Westfield
Peterborough
PE3 7PD
Tel: 01733 217500
Fax: 01733 217501
Director: Mike Conway
Controller: Mark Howell
Operational Capacity: 840 as of 31st January 2006
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Askham Grange
HMP/YOI Askham Grange is part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Area and contributes to the delivery of the Key Objectives of the Prison Service. It delivers a national service to women prisoners (residents) and young offenders and offers the opportunity for up to ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. It is an open prison, which facilitates a comprehensive resettlement regime for long and, increasingly, short-stay residents. Key to the delivery of this regime and of primary focus to Askham Grange is the maintenance of decent and respectful relationships between all who live, work and visit here, and the community benefit of pro-social modelling. Support in achieving positive family relationships and learning is provided in parallel with educational and work skills and personal development.
Brockhill
Bronzefield
Buckley Hall
Downview
East Sutton Park
Eastwood Park
Foston Hall
Holloway
Low Newton
Morton Hall
New Hall
Send
Styal
Bullwood Hall
Cookham Wood
Peterborough
Address:
Askham Richard
YORK
YO23 3FT
Tel: 01904 772000
Fax: 01904 772001 (General)
Governor: Alec McCrystal
Type of Accommodation: Dormitory
Operational Capacity: 131 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Maximum 2 years to PED. No more than 5 years to non-parole date. Not within 3 months of parole reports commencing. Must have completed identified offence-focused work. Outstanding hospital appointments may be moved to York (both Healthcare departments to arrange).
No medical condition that requires 24-hour supervision. Those currently on a detox programme only in consultation with Askham Grange Healthcare.
Local female, Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre which opened in November 1991 replacing HMRC Brockhill.
It is purpose built and designed to hold prisoners either on remand or awaiting appearances at Magistrates or Crown Court or convicted sentenced prisoners.
Address:
Hewell Lane
Redditch
Worcestershire
B97 6RD
Tel: 01527 552650
Fax: 01527 552651
Governor: Alison Gomme
Accommodation: Mostly Single cells. Some dormitory accommodation on YO wing. Night sanitation system.
Operational Capacity: 150 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: All categories.
Regime: Domestic, kitchen and gardens work, Education, Detox programme, Hairdressing VTC.
HMP Bronzefield is a modern purpose built prison for women which opened in June 2004. It performs the function of a local prison, accepting prisoners direct from the courts and is run by United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS).
Address:
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford
Middlesex
TW15 3JZ
Tel: 01784 425690
Fax: 01784 425691
Director: Janine McDowell
Controller: Alan Thurlby
Operational Capacity: 450 from 1st November 2004
Type of Accommodation: Accommodation is provided in three Houseblocks with mostly single cells. There is also a unit for twelve mothers with babies. There are inpatient facilities in the Healthcare Centre.
Reception Criteria: Bronzefield performs the role of a local prison, taking prisoners directly from the courts. Some sentenced adults may serve some of their sentence at Bronzefield.
Regime:
Workshops: Opening – Link Centre
Resettlement: Opening – The Klean Academy
Negotiating - Reed International Data Inputting and Packaging
Negotiating - Barnardos’ Jewellery Workshop
Buckley Hall was, at its reopening, the fourth contracted out prison in the UK, and the first privately managed Cat C establishment holding medium security prisoners. Group 4 Prison Services operated it but after a tendering process in June 2000 the establishment reverted to Prison Service control. The establishment is managed under a Service Level Agreement, monitored by the Compliance Monitor, reporting to the Regional Offender Manager, CCU and the Area Manager. In November 2001 it was announced that the prison would re-role to a closed female training prison. The first female prisoners arrived in April 2002. As a result of population pressures in the male estate, it was decided to re-role the establishment back to a male category C prison in September 2005. The male prisoners began arriving on December 5th 2005.
Address:
Buckley Hall Road
Rochdale
Lancs
OL12 9DP
Tel: 01706 514300
Fax: 01706 514399
Governor: Mick Regan
Accommodation: 3 units (2 of 66, 1 of 50). Care and Separation Unit for 10. No VPU. There is full integral sanitation, in-cell TV. Pin phones available for use at agreed times. Pool, table football and table tennis facilities, board games and video library are available. No cookers, homemade audiocassettes, or caged birds allowed.
Reception criteria: Sentenced male category C prisoners, primarily from the Manchester area, who are willing to address offending behaviour and engage in programmes with a view to progression to category D status / HDC. Due to the residential units being on a 1:15 incline; we are unable to accept prisoners with mobility or heart problems. Prisoners must be within 9 months of their Parole Eligibility Date.
Operational Capacity: 264 as of 31st January 2006
Downview is a closed prison for women at Sutton in Surrey, converted from the former nurses' home of Banstead Hospital.
The prison opened in 1989 as a category C Male Prison. In September 2001 Downview re-roled to a closed prison for adult women and in December 2004 a 16 bed juvenile unit (The Josephine Butler Unit) opened for young female offenders (both remand and convicted) aged from 15-18 in partnership with the Youth Justice Board.
Address:
HM Prison Downview
Sutton Lane
Sutton
Surrey
SM2 5PD
Tel: 020 8929 3300
Fax: 020 8929 3301
Governor: Ian Murray
Operational Capacity: 358 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Not 24 hrs Health Centre cover, no de-tox programme for adults. Adult sentenced females and juveniles – all categories.
Accommodation: All accommodation has integral sanitation and in-cell electrics for televisions. Mostly single cells.
Regime: The prison provides a positive regime with a variety of vocational training courses and NVQ opportunities contributing to a positive experience for prisoners, offering a variety of opportunities to improve learning and training skills and offending behaviour programmes to help reduce the risk of re-offending upon release. A dedicated resettlement unit provides opportunities for work and education outside the prison.
First opened as a borstal in 1946. The prison is a Grade II listed country mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent, and is used to hold both adult and young offender women in open conditions.
Address:
HMP/YOI East Sutton Park
Sutton Valence
Maidstone
Kent
ME17 3DF
Tel: 01622 845000
Fax: 01622 845001 / 842825
Governor: George Carruthers
Operational Capacity: 100 as of 15th August 2005
Accommodation: Dormitory conditions. 21 rooms catering for between 2 and 13
Reception Criteria: All risk assessed as suitable for open. Do not accept arson past or present offences, as a working prison we take all except labour 3, anyone requiring full time medical cover or anyone locate flat as all our accommodation is on, or above ground floor.
Regime: Includes provision of farms and gardens and training courses, a Listener Scheme, physical education, and various community based programmes. There are currently 25 women working outside of the prison and there are plans to increase this up to 50.
Eastwood Park is a female closed local prison. Opened after refurbishment on 1 March 1996 when staff and inmates were brought from Pucklechurch. Previously was male juvenile Detention Centre then a Young Offenders Institution.
Address:
Falfield
Wotton-under-Edge
Glos
GL12 8DB
Tel: 01454 382100
Fax: 01454 382101
Governor: Tim Beeston
Accommodation: Cells
Operational Capacity: 362 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements. The prison accepts all female prisoners in its catchment area.
Regime: The regime at Eastwood Park is very diverse and includes domestic cleaning work, catering (to NVQ level 2); horticulture (NVQ level 2); maintenance, hairdressing and beauty (NVQ level 2); industrial cleaning; community sports leaders and other sports awards; Job Clubs; offending behaviour programmes and many education courses ranging from basic literacy and numeracy to Open University post graduate degrees.
Health care: Eastwood Park has type 3 health care centre status. There is 24 hours healthcare provision and 12 beds are available in the health care centre.
Drugs strategy: Prisoners with a drug problem are identified by a variety of means including initial reception screening by health care centre staff, observations by other staff and self-referrals.Arrangements for detoxification, rehabilitation, treatment, education, and counselling include educational classes run by the Bristol Drugs Project and Narcotics Anonymous.
Foston Hall is a Closed Female prison, which was originally the hunting estate of the Broadhurst family. The present Hall was built in 1863 but the estate is 14th Century and many parts of the 17th Century house remain. The Prison Service acquired the Hall and grounds in 1953. During its Prison Service history Foston Hall has been a Detention Centre, an immigration centre, and finally before its closure during 1996 a satellite of Sudbury prison.
It was re-opened on 31 July 1997, following major refurbishment and building work, as a closed female establishment. A, B & C wings are purpose built RTUs, each holding 40 prisoners. Each room has intergral sanitation and a shower. D wing is cellular accommodation comprising double and treble bedded rooms holding a total of 44 prisoners. Each room has intergral sanitation. E wing comprises three rooms holding a total of 10 prisoners.
The prison also has a Health Care Centre with five inpatient beds.
Address:
Foston
Derby
Derbyshire
DE65 5DN
Tel: 01283 584300
Fax: 01283 584301
Governor: Miss Paddy Scriven
Operational Capacity: 274 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Includes provision for gardens, work and textile workshop places.
Additionally the prison runs the following programmes/initiatives:
Enhanced Thinking Skills
Focus on Violence; a course for violent offenders being run, in conjunction with Derbyshire Probation Service
Possibilities Towards Survival; a NSPCC-approved course dealing with childhood abuse
Drug Self-Help Group as part of the establishments Drug Strategy
Samaritans trained Listeners scheme
Prison! Me! No Way! initiative started with local schools and groups
A full-time Hairdressing Training Salon.
Originally constructed by the City of London and opened in 1852 as a mixed prison, became all female circa 1902. Completely rebuilt between 1971-1985 on the same site.
Address:
HMP and YOI Holloway
Parkhurst Road
London
N7 0NU
Tel: 020 7979 4400
Fax: 020 7979 4401
Governor: Tony Hassall
Operational Capacity: 478 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Single rooms with some dormitory accommodation.
Reception Criteria: All adult and young offenders remanded or sentenced by the courts with the exception of Category A.
Regime: Regime includes both full-time and part-time education, Skills training workshops, British Industrial Cleaning Science BICS, gardens and painting. There is a fully integrated resettlement / induction strategy, which identifies individual needs and provides a structured approach for advice and guidance on such issues as housing, benefits, training and community volunteering programmes.
There are also offending behaviour programmes: FOR a change, SDP, Short duration Programme, anger management, assertion training, and domestic violence. Other programmes include desk top publishing and individual needs based work with a variety of partnership agencies. Other special features are welfare to work, Holloway befrienders scheme, listeners' schemes, programme development and community projects.
Low Newton is situated approximately 4 miles south west of Durham, and was purpose-built as a Remand Centre in 1965 with accommodation for 65 males and 11 females. Additional accommodation was provided in 1975 and the Centre then had a CNA of 215, though was normally overcrowded. Low Newton accommodated both male and female young persons and adult women until September 1998, when a re-role refurbishment programme commenced. It is now an all female prison. Low Newton serves the courts in the catchment area from the Scottish Borders to North Yorkshire across to North Cumbria. All remand females aged 18 and over are held (apart from Category A prisoners) and all sentenced female prisoners 18 or over can serve out their sentence, including lifers.
Address:
Brasside
Durham
DH1 5YA
Tel: 0191 3764000
Fax: 0191 3764001
Governor: Andrea Whitfield
Accommodation: Cells
Operational Capacity: 310 as of 31st January 2006
Reception Criteria: Low Newton is a closed, female prison and young offender institution. It holds a small number of juveniles and life sentenced prisoners.
Previously an RAF base, Morton Hall was re-opened as an open prison in 1985. New accommodation was opened in 1996 and the prison was reroled to a Semi-Open Women's Prison and refitted in 2001 to provide dedicated facilities for women offenders. Two ready to use units opened in 2002 increasing the capacity of the prison.
In January 2004 a new 39 Intermittent Custody Centre opened, this is an alternative to full time custody where individuals report to custody weekends or weekdays. The purpose of this unit is to reduce negative outcomes of custody such as, loss of employment, loss of accommodation and family disintegration.
The prison is now developing as a specialist foreign national centre (with around 50 nationalities represented) and is also developing its own resettlement regime for prisoners who will be released into this country.
Address:
Swinderby
Lincoln
LN6 9PT
Tel: 01522 666 700
Fax: 01522 666 750
Governor: Damian Evans
Accommodation: All women have single rooms and in three of the units women have their own pass key.
Operational Capacity: 392 as of 19th September 2005
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements: Morton Hall is a semi-open female prison.
New Hall is a women's prison, which was originally used as a satellite prison for nearby Wakefield Prison. The open prison system seems to have originated from an experiment in 1933,when due to an increase in the prison population and a lack of suitable employment for prisoners, 65 acres of woodland and about 9 acres of arable land about 7 miles from Wakefield were released for clearance and cultivation by a workforce of prisoners from HMP Wakefield.
The success of this outside work party led to the opening in 1936 of New Hall camp, a prison for the employment of prisoners from HM Prison Wakefield. New Hall was reroled in 1961 as a closed Detention Centre when the ‘short sharp shock' regime for male young offenders was introduced.
In 1987 New Hall was again reroled to a Women's Prison. Presently New Hall holds adult female prisoners of all categories, Young Offenders and Juveniles on Detention and Training Orders. There is also a 40 bed semi-open unit for adult females.
Address:
HMP & YOI New Hall
Dial Wood
Flockton
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF4 4XX
Tel: 01924 844 200
Fax: 01924 844 201
Governor: Sara Snell
Operational Capacity: 395 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Mainly cellular, 5 dormitories holding 21 prisoners, Mother & Baby unit - 9 rooms, 19 bed Healthcare Centre.
Regime: New Hall provides both full and part time education including, Business Administration, NVQ Hairdressing, GNVQ Art, GNVQ Health & Social Care, OCN Lifeskills, Food Hygiene, Literacy & Numeracy.
· 4 Workshops – Assembly work & Light Textiles AQA unit Achievement awards.
· Catering NVQ Food Preparation.
· Gardens NPTC Skills for Working Life Qualifications.
· P.E. course CSLA, NVQ Sport & Recreation, AQA Unit achievement awards.
· Offending Behaviour Courses including, ETS, Substance Use SDDP, Assertiveness & Decision Making, AVP (Avoidance of violence prog.)
· Employment & Careers Advice, Jobcentre plus, Connexions, SOVA Project.
Originally a Smallpox Isolation Hospital, Send first became a Prison in 1962 when it opened as a Junior Detention Centre.
It remained as such until 1987 when it was re-classified as a category C Adult Male Training Prison.
Re-rolled in 1998 and completely rebuilt by 1999, Send currently operates as a closed Female Training Prison. It also houses a 20 bed Drug Treatment Unit (RAPT Programme), an 80 bed Resettlement Unit and a Therapeutic Community with a capacity of 40.
Address:
HMP Send
Ripley Road
Woking
Surrey
GU23 7LJ
Tel: 01483 471000
Fax: 01483 471001
Governor: Brian Ritchie
Operational Capacity: 215 as of 31st January 2006
Accommodation: Wings A-C combine to form the Main Block of the Prison, A-Wing housing VDTs and the Therapeutic Community. The RAPT programme is run out of a separate Unit, D-Wing, with accommodation for 20. E and F Wings, again, separated from the main Prison, make up the Resettlement Unit.
Regimes: Send features an Education department running Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Admin and Hairdressing, a Farms & Gardens work party offering Floristry NVQs, an industrial workshop, and a recycling and painting party run by the Works department. In addition to this, opportunities for those on the Resettlement Unit include voluntary work, attending College courses and Work Placements in the outside community. This is subject to stringent eligibility testing and the keeping of a signed Compact agreement between Prisoners and the Resettlement Staff.
The main prison buildings were built as an orphanage in the 1890s which closed in 1956. The site opened as a women's prison in 1962 when female prisoners from Strangeways were transferred in.
From 1983 Young Offenders were admitted and in 1999 a wing was added to accommodate unsentenced female prisoners following the closure of Risley's remand centre, increasing the prison size by 60%.
The prison was featured in the BBC2 documentary ‘Women on the Edge – the Truth about Styal Prison' on February 27th 2006.
Address:
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 4HR
Tel: 01625 553000
Fax: 01625 553001
Governor: Steve Hall
Accommodation: Dormitories and Cells
Operational Capacity: 469 as of 31st July 2006
Reception Criteria: Normal reception arrangements: Styal accepts adult female prisoners and, in some cases, young offenders. There are facilities for mothers with babies up to age 18 months. Remand prisoners are received direct from the courts. Transfers of prisoners from other prisons must be arranged in advance.
HMP & YOI Bullwood Hall was originally built in the 1960s as a female borstal.
Address:
High Road
Hockley
Essex
SS5 4TE
Tel: 01702 562 800
Fax: 01702 562 801
Governor: Mukhtar Poselay
Operational Capacity: 171 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Regime includes education (full/part-time and evening classes), workshops, training courses, farms and gardens, and a works department. There are various types of offending behaviour groups e.g. drug importers' group. Other special features are available such as fashion and hairdressing courses, and the support unit which has been set up on E Wing to help those who have difficulty in coming to terms with prison life.
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Cookham Wood is a closed prison for adult women. It was built in the 1970's, originally for young men, but its use was changed to meet the growing need for secure female accommodation at the time.
Address:
HMP Cookham Wood
Rochester
Kent
ME1 3LU
Tel: 01634 202 500
Fax: 01634 202 501
Governor: Ed Tullet
Accommodation: Single Cells
Operational Capacity: 185 as of 31st January 2006
Regime: Prisoners are mainly employed in the workshops (tailoring and contract work), on the gardens, painting party and in domestic work such as kitchen and cleaning. Many women are also on part-time education, which includes improving literacy and numeracy where needed. There are several offending behaviour groups, run either by prison staff or probation, as well as support groups (such as the foreign nationals group) and self-help groups.
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HMP Peterborough opened in Spring 2005. It is a Category B prison and the first purpose-built prison to house both men and women.
Peterborough is run by United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS).
Address:
HMP Peterborough
Saville Road
Westfield
Peterborough
PE3 7PD
Tel: 01733 217500
Fax: 01733 217501
Director: Mike Conway
Controller: Mark Howell
Operational Capacity: 840 as of 31st January 2006
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