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HM Prison Kingston is a former Category B/C men's prison, located in the Kingston area of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England. Prior to closure, the prison was operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. In 2020, work began to convert the site to residential use.
The northern England slang for prison is Pompey, possibly derived from criminals who may have served time aboard the prison ship Pompee. [9] The ship's career as Portsmouth guard ship and prison hulk may have led to the ship becoming nationally associated with Portsmouth itself, although the ship's original French name becoming anglicised from ...
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).
She became a prison hulk in 1822 and was sold in 1837. HMS Temeraire: 1812–1815 River Tamar: Temeraire was a 98-gun Second-rate launched in 1798 at Chatham. She served as a prison hulk between 1812 and 1815, then as a receiving ship until 1836, and was broken up in 1838. HMS Tenedos: 1843–1875 Bermuda: Tenedos was a 38-gun Fifth-rate ...
In January 2013, Grayling announced plans to close seven prisons: HM Prison Bullwood Hall in Essex, HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, HM Prison Canterbury in Kent, HM Prison Gloucester in Gloucestershire, HM Prison Kingston in Portsmouth, HM Prison Shepton Mallet in Somerset, and HM Prison Shrewsbury in Shropshire. [4]
The Portsmouth police station working group has proposed building a new 57,700-square-foot station, according to documents posted on the police department’s web site.
The Portsmouth Naval Prison, built to be a modern correctional facility for a navy which had once disciplined by flogging and capital punishment, was rendered obsolete. After containing about 86,000 military inmates over its 66-year operation, the brig closed in 1974, its maintenance thereafter contributing to shipyard overhead .
Methamphetamine was found hidden inside crutches at Portsmouth International Airport in New Hampshire. 5. A gun was found wrapped in tinfoil inside a teapot filled with shot glasses at Portland ...