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The prison was opened in the mid-1970s, and originally built to house 150 inmates. Because La Moye is the island's only jail, it has to provide accommodation for men, women and vulnerable prisoners. The young offenders wing was closed due to no funding.
Jeffrey Archer was an inmate from August until October 2001, as a result of his high-profile perjury conviction. His diary, from his time in the prison, is published in 'Prison Diary 2: Wayland - Purgatory' [8] Charlie Gilmour, stepson of Pink Floyd guitarist, David Gilmour served 4 months at HMP Wayland in 2011. [9]
Warren Hill's Juvenile Activity Centre accommodates a drug rehabilitation project and a special education intervention group. There is also a special leisure area for inmates who earn privileges. On 4 September 2013, the Ministry of Justice announced that it intends to convert Warren Hill into a prison for adult male inmates. [3]
Violence has been rising at Lowdham Grange assaults have risen yearly since 2009. There were 318 assaults in 2017 and 237 in 2016, the 2017 number was over twice the number of assaults in 2014. Roughly two thirds of assaults were prisoners assaulting other prisoners, one third involved prisoners assaulting staff.
The median term for inmates is six years. 47% of inmates are serving terms of one-to-five years; 17% are serving terms of six-to-nine years; and 33% are serving maximum sentences of 10 years or more. As of January 2003, 984 offenders were serving life sentences , including 14 offenders under death sentences (all of which have now been commuted ...
Northumberland was formed on 31 October 2011 from a merger of HM Prison Acklington and HM Prison Castington [2] and on 1 December 2013 management of HMP Northumberland passed from Her Majesty's Prison Service to Sodexo Justice Services. [2] HMP Acklington was the most northerly adult prison in England, and was built on the site of the former ...
In 2017 the prison was re-rolled from a Category B local/remand prison to a Category C training and resettlement. This coincided with being chosen as a pilot site for a joint Department of Health and Ministry of Justice programme to develop better ways to promote recovery from drug addiction (Drug Recovery Prison Programme).
However, a year later ten inmates staged a rooftop protest at the prison for 28 hours. The prisoners were "protesting about their food being cooked by prisoners on the sex offender registry." [4] The protest ended peacefully. A new 64-bed unit was opened at Channings Wood in 2007.