The Cell Companion 2022
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With a Foreword by Paul Ferris – 2023 edition 1st October 2022.

The Cell Companion 2022
Editor: Mark Leech
ISBN: 9781916082496
No. of pages: 256
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Published 1st November 2021
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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 2022 – Contents
The Cell Companion 2022 is published on 1st December 2021, as such it is currently (October 2021) still in pre-production so contents may change, view the the following therefore as an educated guide.
About The Editor, 5
Acknowledgements, 5
Contents, 6
Foreword, Paul Ferris, 9
Prison Facts Today: November 2021, 10
Understanding the Prison Estate
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Prisons and YOI’s
Security Categories listed by Prisons, 12
Prisons listed by Security Categories, 13
What are the different types of prison in England and Wales? 13, 14
Private sector prisons, 14
Private prisons by name, operator, task population, and Contract expiry date, 14
Living Conditions and Covid-19, 14
Key finding to 31st October 2021, 15
Measuring accommodation standards, 15
Maintenance of Prisons, 16
Prison Estate Transformation Programme, 16
Types of prisons in England and Wales, 17
Local
Open
High Security Long Term Estate
Female
Immigration Removal Centres
Young Offender Institutions
Trainer
Sentencing Changes, 19
SECTION ONE – A-Z OF ALL PRISON ESTABLISHMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
A-Z of Prison Establishments 2022 – 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 FIVE WELLS – due to open early 2022 by G4S
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 MORTON HALL – due to reopen late 2021 as a Cat C adult male
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, 242
• 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 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 2021: what are they? 134
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)
Marriage in prison, 141
Open Prisons – how to prepare. 141
Pad Mates- sharing a cell without grief or friction, 143
Parole New Review Mechanism. 154
Prison Debt – how and why to avoid it, 144
Property stored and in possession inside, 148
Recall 2021 – your rights, 152
ROTL 2021, 155
Self-harm – how to cope, 156
Sex in prison, 157
Slang, 158
Transfers, 159
Veterans in Custody, 160
VPUs, protection, 161
Work and Pay, 162
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 November 2021
SECTION SIX Something To Say?
•Expecting Prisons to Reduce Crime is a Pipedream: Sir Martin Narey, 223
ANNEXES
Freedom of Information Act: In prison you have Information rights – use them, 229
Full List of PSIs, PSOs, and Policy Frameworks in force at 1st November 2021, 231
List of Prison Groups and Directors, 235
Annual Calendar January to December 2022, 237
National Facilities List 2022, 242
Map of the Prison Estate 2022, 250.
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