This page lists all current and a number of historical prisons in the United Kingdom . See List of Prisons for prisons in other countries, and Her Majesty's Prison Service for further information on the English & Welsh Prison Service. (Scotland and Northern Ireland have discrete prison authorities.)
Aberdeen Prison, Aberdeen , Aberdeenshire Acklington Prison, Acklington, Northumberland Albany Prison, Newport, Isle of Wight Altcourse Prison, Fazakerley , Liverpool (Private - Group 4 Securitas) Ashfield Prison, Pucklechurch, Bristol (Private - Premier Custodial Group Ltd, subsidiary of Serco Group plc ) Ashwell Prison, Oakham , Rutland Askham Grange Prison, York Aylesbury Prison , Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire Barlinnie, Glasgow Bedford Prison, Bedford, Bedfordshire Belmarsh Prison , south-east London Birmingham Prison, Birmingham , West Midlands Blakenhurst Prison, Redditch Blantyre House Prison, Horden , Kent Blundeston Prison, Lowestoft , Suffolk Brinsford Prison, Featherstone , Wolverhampton Bristol Prison, Bristol Brixton Prison, south London Brockhill Prison, Redditch , Worcestershire Bronzefield Prison (Private - United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS)) Buckley Hall Prison, Rochdale , Lancashire Bullingdon Prison, Bicester , Oxon Bullwood Hall Prison, Hockley, Essex Camp Hill Prison, Newport, Isle of Wight Canterbury Prison, Canterbury , Kent Cardiff Prison, Cardiff Castington Prison, Morpeth , Northumberland Castle Huntly Prison, Longforgan, Perth and Kinross Channings Wood Prison, Newton Abbot , Devon Chelmsford Prison, Chelmsford , Essex Coldingley Prison, Bisley , Surrey Cookham Wood Prison , Rochester , Kent Cornton Vale Prison, Stirling , Stirling Dartmoor Prison , Princetown , Devon Deerbolt Prison, Barnard Castle , County Durham Doncaster Prison, Marshgate, Doncaster (Private - Premier Prison Services Ltd) Dorchester Prison, Dorchester, Dorset Dovegate Prison, Uttoxeter , Staffordshire (Private - Premier Prison Services Ltd) Dover Prison, Dover , Kent Downview Prison, Sutton , Surrey Drake Hall Prison, Eccleshall , Staffordshire Dumfries Prison, Dumfries , Dumfries and Galloway Durham Prison, Old Elvet , Durham East Sutton Park Prison, Maidstone , Kent Eastwood Park Prison, Falfield , Gloucestershire Edinburgh Prison, Edinburgh Edmunds Hill Prison, Newmarket , Suffolk Elmley Prison, Sheerness , Kent Erlestoke Prison, Devizes , Wiltshire Everthorpe Prison, Brough , East Yorkshire Exeter Prison, Exeter Featherstone Prison, Featherstone , Wolverhampton Feltham Prison, Feltham , Middlesex (Young Offenders Institute) Fleet Prison , London - HistoricalFord Prison, Arundel , West Sussex Forest Bank Prison, Manchester (Private - United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS)) Foston Hall Prison, Foston, Derbyshire Frankland Prison, Durham Full Sutton Prison, York Garth Prison, Preston , Lancashire Gartree Prison, Market Harborough , Leicestershire Glen Parva Prison, Leicester Glenochil Prison, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire Gloucester Prison, Gloucester Greenock Prison, Greenock , Inverclyde Grendon Prison, Grendon Underwood , Buckinghamshire Guys Marsh Prison, Shaftesbury , Dorset Haslar Prison, Gosport , Hampshire Haverigg Prison, Haverigg, Millom Hewell Grange Prison, Redditch , Worcestershire Highdown Prison, Sutton , Surrey Highpoint South Prison, Newmarket , Suffolk Hindley Prison, Wigan , Lancashire Hollesley Bay Prison, Woodbridge , Suffolk Holloway Prison, London Holme House Prison, Stockton on Tees Hull Prison, Hull Huntercombe Prison, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire Inverness Prison, Inverness , Highland Kilmarnock Prison , Kilmarnock , East Ayrshire (Private - Premier Prison Services Ltd)Kingston Prison, Portsmouth Kirkham Prison, Preston , Lancashire Kirklevington Prison, Yarm Lancaster Prison, Lancaster, Lancashire Lancaster Farms Prison, Lancaster, Lancashire Latchmere House Prison, Richmond , Surrey Leeds Prison, Leeds , West Yorkshire Leicester Prison, Leicester Lewes Prison, Lewes , East Sussex Leyhill Prison, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucester Lincoln Prison, Lincoln , Lincolnshire Lindholme Prison, Doncaster Littlehey Prison, Huntingdon Liverpool Prison, Liverpool Long Lartin Prison, Evesham , Worcestershire Low Moss Prison, Glasgow Low Newton Prison, Brasside, Durham Lowdham Grange Prison, Lowdham, Nottingham (Private - Premier Prison Services Ltd) Maidstone Prison, Maidstone , Kent Manchester Prison, Manchester Previously called ‘’Strangeways Prison’’ Marshalsea Prison , London - HistoricalMaze (also called Long Kesh ), County Antrim - closed September 29, 2000 Moorland Prison, Doncaster , South Yorkshire Moorland Open Prison, Doncaster , South Yorkshire Morton Hall Prison, Swinderby, Lincoln Mount Prison, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Newgate Prison , London - HistoricalNew Hall Prison, Wakefield , West Yorkshire Noranside Prison, Forfar , Angus North Sea Camp Prison, Boston , Lincolnshire Northallerton Prison, Northallerton , West Yorkshire Norwich Prison, Norwich , Norfolk Nottingham Prison, Sherwood , Nottingham Onley Prison, Rugby, Warwickshire Oxford Prison , Oxford , Oxfordshire - closed 1996, as of 2004 being redeveloped as a hotelParc Prison, Bridgend , South Wales (Private - Securicor (Justice Services)) Parkhurst Prison, Newport, Isle of Wight Pentonville Prison , London Perth Prison, Perth , Perth and Kinross Peterhead Prison, Aberdeenshire Polmont Prison, Falkirk , Falkirk (Young Offenders Institute) Portland Prison, Portland , Dorset Prescoed Prison, Pontypool , Monmouthshire Preston Prison, Preston , Lancashire Ranby Prison, Retford , Notinghamshire Reading Prison, Reading, Berkshire Risley Prison, Warrington , Cheshire Rochester Prison, Rochester , Kent Rye Hill Prison, Willoughby , Warwickshire (Private - Group 4 Securitas) Send Prison, Woking , Surrey Shepton Mallet Prison, Shepton Mallet , Somerset Shotts Prison, Shotts , North Lanarkshire Shrewsbury Prison, Shrewsbury , Shropshire Spring Hill Prison, Grendon Underwood , Buckinghamshire Stafford Prison, Stafford Standford Hill Prison, Isle of Sheppey , Kent Stocken Prison, Oakham , Rutland Stoke Heath Prison, Market Drayton , Shropshire Styal Prison, Wilmslow , Cheshire Sudbury Prison, Ashbourne , Derbyshire Swaleside Prison, Isle of Sheppey , Kent Swansea Prison, Swansea Swinfen Hall Prison, Lichfield , Staffordshire Thorn Cross Prison, Warrington Tower of London , London - HistoricUsk Prison, Usk , Monmouthshire Verne Prison, Portland , Dorset Wakefield Prison, Wakefield , West Yorkshire Wandsworth Prison , Wandsworth , south-west LondonWarren Hill Prison, Woodbridge , Suffolk Wayland Prison, Thetford , Norfolk Wealstun Prison, Wetherby , West Yorkshire Weare Prison, Portland , Dorset Wellingborough Prison, Wellingborough Werrington Prison, Werrington , Stoke-on-Trent Wetherby Prison, Wetherby , West Yorkshire Whatton Prison, Whatton , Nottingham Whitemoor Prison , March , Cambridgeshire Winchester Prison, Winchester Wolds Prison, Everthorpe , East Yorkshire (Private - Group 4 Securitas) Woodhill Prison, Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire Wormwood Scrubs Prison , London Wymott Prison, Leyland , Lancashire
External link
Locate a Prison (http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/ ) section from the HM Prison Service website Scottish Prison Service (http://www.sps.gov.uk/ ) Northern Ireland Prison Service (http://www.niprisonservice.gov.uk )
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Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, so-called unlawful combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime. The United Kingdom's Maze (HM Prison ) Prison at Long Kesh was used during the internment period in Northern Ireland to imprison suspected paramilitaries.
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