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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.
This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole life order, formerly called a whole life tariff, through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.From the introduction of the whole life order system in 1983 until an appeal by a prisoner named Anthony Anderson in 2002, a whole life order was set by government ministers.
Even before 1983, prisoners in the UK weren't allowed to vote, which had been decided with the Forfeiture Act 1870. [ 3 ] On 10 December 2012, the Council of Europe advised that the United Kingdom could not continue with its 'blanket ban', observing that one of the available options in the draft bill would contravene the ruling against the UK.
Royal statutes, etc. issued before the development of Parliament. 1225–1267; 1275–1307; 1308–1325; Temp. incert. 1327–1376; 1377–1397; 1399–1411
Section 30(1) of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 provides that the home secretary may at any time release a life prisoner on licence if satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist which justify the prisoner’s release on compassionate grounds. A prisoner can then be released early when criteria such as great age, injury, disability or ill ...
Inmates of prisons in the United Kingdom (5 C) Prisoners and detainees of England and Wales (11 C, 320 P) Prisoners and detainees of Northern Ireland (4 C, 5 P)
4 January 1644/5 Ordinance for taking away the Book of Common Prayer and putting in Execution the Directory for the Public Worship of God. 4 January 1644/5 Ordinance for the Attainder of the William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury. 7 January 1644/5 Order for paying the Guards employed in the defence of the River Thames.
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