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HM Prison Berwyn (Welsh: Carchar Berwyn EF; Welsh:) is a £250 million [3] Category C adult male prison in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is the largest prison in the UK, opened in 2017, and is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service .
HM Prison Berwyn is an example of a Category C prison. They are the equivalent of a minimum security prison in the United States for example. Category D – 'Those who can be reasonably trusted not to try to escape, and are given the privilege of an open prison'. Category D prisoners are held in "Open Prisons" in which they are trusted to be ...
There are five prisons in Wales, Berwyn (2017) a Category C men's prison, located in Wrexham is the UK's largest prison with a capacity of 2,106. Berwyn is the Prison Service's flagship prison. Usk (1844) a Category C men's prison which also includes a satellite site Prescoed (1939) a Category D men's open prison; Cardiff (1832) a Category B ...
Wrexham County Borough is in north-east Wales, straddling the ancient border earthwork Offa's Dyke. There are 107 scheduled monuments in the county borough. The 29 Bronze Age and Iron Age sites are mainly found to the west of Offa's dyke, and are in the main burial mounds and hillforts on the uplands. To the east of the dyke are the majority of ...
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In January 2014, Wrexham County Borough Council granted the planning application. [11] Preparatory works began on the site in September 2014, with the prison planned for completion in 2017. [12] As of July 2019 the prison is fully operational with a capacity for 2106 prisoners, making it the largest prison in the UK by far.
Wrexham County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam) is a county borough, with city status, [3] in the north-east of Wales.It borders the English ceremonial counties of Cheshire and Shropshire to the east and south-east respectively along the England–Wales border, Powys to the south-west, Denbighshire to the west and Flintshire to the north-west.