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List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current use.
HM Prison Shotts is a prison near Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.It is a prison holding male prisoners with maximum security classification. [2] Shotts exclusively holds prisoners serving a term of 5 years or longer, [2] with some prisoners being transferred from other prisons due to a need for a more secure environment.
Belmarsh Prison was built on part of the East site of the former Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, and became operational on 2 April 1991.It adjoins Woolwich Crown Court. [3]In 1991, the Double A Cat prisoner armed robber Ronnie Field, an associate of London gangland boss Joey Pyle, was the first person to be held in Belmarsh's High Security Unit, shortly followed by members of the Arif firm and ...
There is a visitors' centre, with facilities including a baby-changing area, a children's play area and refreshment machines. In September 2019 the local council passed an application for the construction of a "mega prison", with 1,440 inmates, at Full Sutton, despite nearly 3,000 objections, including one from Humberside Police .
As a high-security prison, Wakefield was used to house IRA prisoners intermittently during the 20th century. In some cases in the 1950s, the IRA attempted to free the prisoners, such as Cathal Goulding in 1956 (the attempt was aborted when the sirens sounded) [ 7 ] and James Andrew Mary Murphy in 1959 (who was freed). [ 8 ]
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Broadmoor Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England.. It is the oldest of England's three high-security psychiatric hospitals, the other two being Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool and Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
Danny Masterson. Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic Danny Masterson has been transferred to a minimum-security prison after a brief stay in a maximum-security facility, Us Weekly can confirm. Masterson, 47 ...