The Cell Companion 2025

The Cell Companion 2025

8th Edition

Editor: Mark Leech
ISBN-13: 978-1-7396323-6-6
No. of pages: 256

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Contents 2025 edition

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About The Editor, 5
Acknowledgements, 5
Foreword, Paul Ferris, 7
Prison Estate July 2024, 7-17

SECTION 1. A-Z of Prisons, 18-91
ALTCOURSE to WYMOTT

SECTION 2. ADVICE, 92.
Before You Go To Prison, 93.
• Before you go to Prison – honestly, it’s not the end of the world that it may seem right now!
• The ‘Bang Up Bag’ – what to pack, 93.
• What lays ahead – Viewpoints from experienced voices who have been there, 94.
When You’re In Prison, 96.
• Adjudications – Disciplinary charges and how to deal with them – incl the 2024 changes, 96
• Applications & Complaints – How to get things done in prison, 100.
• Bereavement – when someone dies while you’re inside, attending the funeral, 103.
• Block – How to cope with segregation, 104.
• Categorisation – male and female, what is it and getting a review, Male 106, Female 108.
• Confiscation Orders – what are they and what consequences do they bring, 109.
• Early Release Scheme – Foreign nationals, how to return home early, 110.
• Education – how to apply/study, 110.
• Equality – you have rights not to be discriminated against, 113.
• Extremism – Recognising it, its dangers and how to avoid it, 114.
• Facilities List – Explaining the national and local list of what you can have in prison, 115.
• Family Matters – Keeping in contact with, letters, visits, phone calls, email, voicemail, 115.
• Getting out – Pre-release check list and how not to come back again; Licence, Supervising Officer, Subsistence Payment, Accommodation, Train Warrants, Benefits, Pensions, Work, 117-119.
• Healthcare – Your rights to healthcare in prison and how to complain, 120.
• Home Detention Curfew, 121.
• Incentives Earned Privileges – Levels and keeping your privileges – the current scheme, 123.
• Keeping your home when in prison – Steps you can take to keep accommodation, 126.
• ‘Mambalance’: Danger of DEATH, 126.
• Maintaining Innocence, 127.
• Marriage while in prison, 128.
• Offending Behaviour Courses, 237.
• Open Prisons – how to prepare, 129.
• Pad Mates- sharing without grief, 131.
• Prison Debt – why you MUST avoid it, 132.
• Property inside, 134.
• Recall 2023 – your rights, 136.
• Reconsideration Mechanism, 138.
• ROTL 2023, 140.
• Self-harm – coping in custody, 141.
• Sex in prison, 142.
• Transfers, 144.
• Veterans in Custody, 144.
• VPUs, protection, 146.
• Work & Pay, 147.

SECTION 3.
Personal Injury in Prison, 148
By Express Solicitors

SECTION 4.
Relevant and Helpful Organisations, 154 Government and other organisations that deal with and help people in prison, including charities that give grants to prisoners

SECTION 5.
Legal, 162
Prison Rules, 162
Parole Board Rules, 190
Prison Service Instructions, 206
Prison Service Orders, 209
Policy Frameworks, 209

ANNEXES, 230
HMPPS HQ Directors, 230
Area Executive Directors, 231
Prison Groups and Directors, 231
Prison Governors/Directors, 233
Prison Performance Ratings 2023, 234
Prison Inspection Reports, 235
Offending Behaviour Programmes, 237
Freedom of Information Act, 240
National Facilities List 2024, 243-249
Map of the Prison Estate 2025, 250-251
2025 Calendar, 254-255

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