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A guide to London’s prisons
National World - LocalTV
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06/08/2024
We take a look at all of London’s major prisons after it was announced HMP Wandsworth would be getting a £100m worth of investment.
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One of the government's key policies is to tackle a so-called prison crisis. With overcrowding
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an issue and living conditions a concern for inmates. So much so that HMP Wandsworth is
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set to be given £100 million after being labelled catastrophic. An inspection in May
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found shocking conditions and failures in leadership at every level. With overcrowding
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an issue, how many prisons are there in London? Well, one of the most famous prisons in the
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UK is HMP Belmarsh, and it's London's only Category A prison. Category A prisons
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house male prisoners who, if they were to escape, pose the most threat to public, police
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or national security. HMP Thameside is based a short distance from Belmarsh, in the Thamesmead
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area of Greenwich, in south-east London. It is a Category B resettlement prison that holds 1,232
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convicted and remand male prisoners. Category B prisoners are those who pose a risk to the public
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but do not require maximum security. One of the country's oldest and busiest prisons is HMP
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Pentonville in Islington, north London. The Category B prison is home to around 1,300 inmates
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and is largely unchanged structurally in nearly 180 years. Then you have HMP Brixton that's made
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a transition recently from a local prison, where someone is held prior to trial or directly after
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conviction, to a Category C or D jail. Category C prisons are training and resettlement jails
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where the majority of inmates are housed. The main female prison in Greater London is out west
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HMP Bronzefield. Accommodation at Bronzefield is divided into four main residential units,
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each holding approximately 135 women.
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