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There are a total of ten Category A prisons in the UK, eight are located in England and Wales, one in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland. HM Prison Belmarsh is an example of a Category A prison. They are the equivalent of a supermax/maximum security prison in the United States for example.
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 .
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.
The categories are designated with the letters A to D, with A being the highest level of security, and D the lowest. There are three different prison services in the United Kingdom, and separate services for the three Crown Dependencies, i.e., the Channel Islands jointly and the Isle of Man.
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 ]
Martin Evans of The Daily Telegraph described Long Lartin as one of the UK's "top security jails", and that the prisoners included "some of Britain's most notorious". [9] Thomas Cashman, shot dead nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel at her home in Liverpool in August 2022. [10] Carl Dobson, grime MC who is serving a minimum of 30 years for murder.
Low Newton is an all-female maximum security prison and young offender institution. It also holds a small number of juveniles and life sentenced prisoners. Low Newton serves the courts in the catchment area from the Scottish Borders to North Yorkshire across to North Cumbria .