The Cell Companion 2023 – Contents

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THE CELL COMPANION 2023 (ISBN 9781916082458), is the 256-page definitive annual guide to serving and surviving a prison sentence in England and Wales.

The fully revised and updated 2023 edition was published 10th November 2022.


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THE CELL COMPANION 2023 

Status: Published 10th November 2022

ISBN 978-1-9160824-5-8

Contents 2023

About The Author, 5
Acknowledgements, 5
A_Z Prison Establishments 2023, 6
Foreword, Paul Ferris, 9
Summary – October 2022, 10
Prisons Strategy: White Paper (PSWP), 10
Progress on Prisons, 10
The Prison Estate 2022/2023, 13
Safety, Security and Regime, 14
Reducing Reoffending, 16
Women’s Prisons, 17
Staff Training, 19
Leadership and Accountability, 19
Extended Tagging, 21
Extended Drug Testing, 22

SECTION 1. Prisons, 22
A-Z of Prison Establishments 2023
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
HMP FIVE WELLS
HMP FORD
HMP FOREST BANK
HMP FOSSE WAY (Opens May 2023)
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 (FNP)
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 (FNP)
HMP MANCHESTER
HMP MOORLAND
HMP MORTON HALL (FNP)
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 PORTLAND
HMP PRESCOED See entry for HMP 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
HM Inspectorate of Prisons: List of Reports issued up to October 2022, 90

SECTION 2. ADVICE, 94
Before You Go To Prison, 94
• 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.
• What lays ahead – Viewpoints from experienced voices who have been there.

When You’re In Prison, 99
• Adjudications – Disciplinary charges and how to deal with them
• Applications & Complaints – How to get things done in prison
• Bereavement – when someone dies while you’re inside, attending the funeral
• Block – How to cope with segregation
• Categorisation – male and female, what is it and getting a review
• Confiscation Orders – what are they and what consequences do they bring
• Early Release Scheme – Foreign nationals, how to return home early
• Education – how to apply/study
• Equality – you have rights not to be discriminated against
• Extremism – Recognising it, its dangers and how to avoid it
• Facilities List – Explaining the national and local list of what you can have in prison
• Family Matters – Maintaining family contact with, letters, visits, and phone calls
• Getting out – Pre-release check list (and how not to come back again); Licence, Supervising Officer, Subsistence Payment, Rail Warrants, Accommodation, Benefits, Pensions, Work
• Healthcare – Your rights to healthcare in prison and how to complain
• Home Detention Curfew – ‘On The Tag’ what is it, how do I apply for it?
• Incentives Earned Privileges – Levels and keeping your privileges – new 2019 scheme
• Keeping your home when in prison – Steps you can take to keep accommodation
• Psychoactive Substances / Legal Highs: Real Danger of DEATH
• Maintaining Innocence after conviction – consequences of saying you didn’t do it
• Marriage – getting married while in prison, including civil partnerships1
• Offending Behaviour Courses what are they?

ACCREDITED PROGRAMMES 2023 FOR COMMUNITY (OCTOBER 2022)

Becoming New Me + (BNM+)
Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery
Building Better Relationships (BBR)
Healthy Identity Intervention (HII)
Horizon
iHorizon
Identity Matters (IM)
Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT)
New Me Strengths (NMS)
Living as New Me (LNM)
Resolve
Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)

FOR CUSTODY (FROM OCTOBER 2022)

Alcohol Dependence Treatment Programme
Becoming New Me + (BNM+)
Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery
Building Better Relationships (BBR)
Challenge to Change (C2C)
Control of Violence (COVAID-GS)
Control of Violence (COVAID-GSW)
Democratic Therapeutic Community Model
Therapeutic Communities Plus (TC+)
Healthy Identity Intervention (HII)
Healthy Sex Programme (HSP)
Horizon
Identity Matters (IM)
Kaizen
Living as New Me
New Me Strengths
Resolve
The Bridge Programme
Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)

Marriage in prison, 138
Open Prisons – how to prepare. 140
Pad Mates- sharing a cell without grief or friction, 142
Prison Debt – why to avoid it, 143
Property inside, 146
Recall 2022 – your rights, 148
ROTL 2022, 153
Self-harm – how to cope, 154
Sex in prison, 155
Slang, 157
Transfers, 158
Veterans in Custody, 158
VPUs, protection, 159
Work & Pay, 160

SECTION 3.
Prison Law & Personal Injury, 161
By Youngs Solicitors

SECTION 4. Helpful Orgs, 167 Organisations that help people in prison, including charities that give grants to prisoners

SECTION 5. Legal
Prison Rules 1999 correct to November 2022, 193

SECTION 6. Something To Say?, 219
The Prisons Ombudsman: Cause For Complaint? Mark Leech FRSA, 219
Prison Medicine: On The Critical List? By Doctor, Prisoner, Campaigner: Tim Kerr, 223
Do you know how to spot an Exit?, 228 Mark Leech FRSA

ANNEXES, 229
• Freedom of Information Act: In prison you have Information rights – use them, 229
• Full List of PSIs, PSOs, and Policy Frame works in force at 1st November 2022, 231
• List of Prison Groups and Directors, 234
• Annual Calendar January 2022 to January 2023, 235
• National Facilities List 2022, 242
• Map of the Prison Estate 2023, 250

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