The Cell Companion 2020
Everyone’s Guide To Serving & Surviving A Prison Sentence!
with a Foreword by Paul Ferris
The Cell Companion 2020
Editor: Mark Leech
ISBN: 9781916082403
No. of pages: 256
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From reception to release, the book covers legal rights, housing, family, healthcare, personal injury, vulnerable prisoners, and it tackles the difficult issues too – like sex in prison, self-harm, avoiding gangs, extremism, the dangers of debt, bullying and the real danger of drugs and especially the potentially fatal ‘legal highs’.
Whether you are going to prison or are already there, this is the book for you and your family, friends and legal advisers too.
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The Cell Companion 2020 – Contents
About The Editor, 5
Acknowledgements, 5
Contents, 6
Foreword, Paul Ferris, 9
Prison Facts Today: September 2019, 10
Summary of the Prison Estate
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Types of prison and YOI’s
Adult male prisons
Local prisons
Adult female prisons
Young offenders
Offender Management in Custody Model (OMiC)
Private sector prisons
Current Government policy 2019
Living conditions
Measuring accommodation standards
History of private sector involvement in prison maintenance
Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP)
10,000 prison places
Investment in the prison estate 2019
What are the different types of prison in England and Wales? 17
Local
Open
High Security & Long Term Estate (LTHSE)
Female
Immigration Removal Centre
Young Offender Institutions
Training prisons
Security Categories listed by Prisons, 18
Prisons listed by Security Categories, 19
HM Inspectorate of Prisons: List of Reports issued up to August 2019, 90
SECTION ONE – A-Z OF ALL PRISON ESTABLISHMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
A-Z of Prison Establishments 2020 – establishments shown with * are subject to a Prisons Inspectorate Urgent Notification as to conditions
HMP ALTCOURSE
HMP ASHFIELD
HMP ASKHAM GRANGE
HMYOI AYLESBURY
*HMP BEDFORD
HMP BELMARSH
HMP BERWYN
*HMP BIRMINGHAM
*HMP BRISTOL
HMP BRONZEFIELD
HMP BUCKLEY HALL
HMP BULLINGDON
HMP BURE
HMP CARDIFF
HMP CHANNINGS WOOD
HMP CHELMSFORD
HMP COLDINGLEY
HMP DARTMOOR
HMP DONCASTER
HMP DOVEGATE
HMP DOWNVIEW
HMP DRAKE HALL
HMP DURHAM
HMP EAST SUTTON PARK
HMP EASTWOOD PARK
HMP ELMLEY
HMP ERLESTOKE
*HMP EXETER
HMP FEATHERSTONE
HMYOI FELTHAM
*Feltham A
Feltham B
HMP FORD
HMP FOREST BANK
HMP FOSTON HALL
HMP FRANKLAND
HMP FULL SUTTON
HMP GARTH
HMP GARTREE
HMP GRENDON
HMP GUYS MARSH
HMP HATFIELD
HMP HAVERIGG
HMP HEWELL
HMP HIGHDOWN
HMP HIGH POINT
HMP HINDLEY
HMP YOI HOLLESLEY BAY
HMP HOLME HOUSE
HMP HULL
HMP HUMBER
HMP HUNTERCOMBE
HMP ISIS
HMP ISLE OF WIGHT
HMP KIRKHAM
HMP KIRKLEVINGTON GRANGE
HMP LANCASTER FARMS
HMP LEEDS
HMP LEICESTER
HMP LEWES
HMP LEYHILL
HMP LINCOLN
HMP LINDHOLME
HMP LITTLEHEY
HMP LIVERPOOL
HMP LONG LARTIN
HMP LOW NEWTON\
HMP LOWDHAM GRANGE
HMP MAIDSTONE
HMP MANCHESTER
HMP MOORLAND
HMP THE MOUNT
HMP NEW HALL
HMP NORTH SEA CAMP
HMP NORTHUMBERLAND
HMP NORWICH
*HMP NOTTINGHAM
HMP OAKWOOD
HMP ONLEY
HMP PARC
HMYOI Parc Juvenile Unit
HMP PETERBOROUGH
HMP & YOI PETERBOROUGH (Women)
HMP PORTLAND
HMP PRESCOED / Usk
HMP PRESTON
HMP RANBY
HMP RISLEY
HMP ROCHESTER
HMP RYE HILL
HMP SEND
HMP SPRINGHILL
HMP STAFFORD
HMP STANDFORD HILL
HMP STOCKEN
HMP STOKE HEATH
HMP STYAL
HMP SUDBURY
HMP SWALESIDE
HMP SWANSEA
HMYOI SWINFEN HALL
HMP THAMESIDE
HMP THORN CROSS
HMP USK / PRESCOED
HMP PRESCOED
HMP WAKEFIELD
HMP WANDSWORTH
HMP WARREN HILL
HMP WAYLAND
HMP WEALSTUN
HMYOI WERRINGTON
HMYOI WETHERBY
HMP WHATTON
HMP WHITEMOOR
HMP WINCHESTER
HMP WOODHILL
HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS
HMP WYMOTT
SECTION TWO. ADVICE, 94,
Before You Go To Prison, 95
• The ‘Bang Up Bag’ – what to pack.
• What lays ahead – Viewpoints from experienced voices who have been there. When You’re In Prison, 100
• Adjudications – Disciplinary charges and how to deal with them, 100
• Applications & Complaints – How to get things done in prison, 103
• Bereavement – when someone dies while you’re inside, attending the funeral, 106
• Block – How to cope with segregation, 107
• Categorisation – male and female, what is it and getting a review, 110
• Confiscation Orders – what are they and what consequences do they bring, 113
• Early Release Scheme – Foreign nationals, how to return home early, 114
• Education – how to apply/study, 114
• Equality – you have rights not to be discriminated against, 117
• Extremism – Recognising it, its dangers and how to avoid it, 118
• Facilities List – Explaining the national and local list of what you can have in prison, 119, 226
• Family Matters – Maintaining family contact with, letters, visits, and phone calls, 120
• Getting out – Pre-release check list, 122
• Healthcare – Your rights to healthcare in prison and how to complain, 125
• Home Detention Curfew – ‘On The Tag’ what is it, how do I apply for it? 127
• Incentives Earned Privileges – Levels and keeping your privileges – new 2019 scheme, 128
• Keeping your home when in prison – Steps you can take to keep accommodation, 132
• Legal Highs: Real Danger of DEATH, 132
• Maintaining Innocence, 133 • Marriage, 141
• Offending Behaviour Courses: what are they? 134
Currently Accredited Programmes 2019
ACCREDITED FOR COMMUNITY
Becoming New Me + (BNM+)
Breaking Free: Health and Justice Package
Building Better Relationships (BBR)
Building Skills for Recovery (BSR)
Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers – Group Community
Impaired Drivers Programme (DIDP)
Healthy Identity Intervention (HII)
Horizon
iHorizon
Identity Matters (IM)
Kaizen
New Me MOT
Resolve
Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)
ACCREDITED FOR CUSTODY
Dependence Treatment Programme (ADTP)
Alcohol Related Violence (ARV)
Becoming New Me + (BNM+)
Breaking Free: Health and Justice Package (Custody)
Building Better Relationships (BBR)
Building Skills for Recovery (BSR)
Challenge to Change (C2C)
Choices, Actions, Relationships, Emotions (CARE)
Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers – Group Secure (COVAID-GS)
Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers – Group Secure Women (COVAID-GSW)
Democratic Therapeutic Community Model (DTC)
Democratic Therapeutic Community Model Plus (TC+)
Healthy Identity Intervention (HII)
Healthy Sex Programme (HSP)
Horizon
Identity Matters (IM)
Kaizen
Living as New Me
New Me Strengths
Resolve
Substance Dependency Treatment Programme (SDTP)
The Bridge Programme
Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)
Women’s Substance Dependency Treatment Programme (WSDTP)
Open Prisons – how to prepare. 141
Pad Mates- sharing a cell without grief or friction, 143
Parole New Review Mechanism. 154
Prison Debt – why to avoid it, 144
Property inside, 148
Recall 2019 – your rights, 152
ROTL 2019, 155
Self-harm – how to cope, 156
Sex in prison, 157
Slang, 158
Transfers, 159
Veterans in Custody, 160
VPUs, protection, 161
SECTION THREE
Personal Injury In Prison, 164 By Michael Jefferies,Senior Partner Jefferies Personal Injuries Solicitors, Chairman: Prison Injury Lawyers Association.
SECTION FOUR Helpful Organisations, 170
Organisations that help people in prison, including charities that give grants to prisoners and businesses that do not discriminate against ex-offenders
SECTION FIVE Legal, 196
PRISON RULES 1999 correct to September 2019
SECTION SIX Something To Say?
Helen’s Law: What happens when the courts believe a liar? page 218
Freedom of Information Act: In prison you have right under the Freedom of Information Act. Page 223
ANNEXES
General Facilities List 2019, 226
Full List of PSIs, PSOs, and Ministry of Justice Policy Frameworks that are in force at 1st September 2019, page 237
Map of the Prison Estate 2020, 246.
Quarterly Calendar October 2019 to September 2020, 249