HM Prison Send

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HMP Send
HM Prison Send
Location Ripley, Surrey [1]
Security class Adult Female/Closed Category
Population282(as of May 2009)
Opened1962
Managed by HM Prison Services
Governor Esther Dainton [2]
Website Send at justice.gov.uk

HM Prison Send is a closed category women's prison in the extreme south of Ripley nearer Send in Surrey, England. Its post town is Woking. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

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History

A smallpox isolation hospital on its site became a prison in 1962 when it opened as a Junior Detention Centre. It remained as such until 1987 when it was re-classified as a Category C Adult Male Training Prison. Send was demolished and completely rebuilt by 1999, opening as a closed Female Training Prison.

In August 2005, a report by the Independent Monitoring Board criticised a marked increase in self-harm and suicide amongst inmates and lack of staff, whereas it praised the prison's education provision and its farms and gardens scheme. [3]

The prison today

Send is a closed prison for adult females. It houses an 80-bed Resettlement Unit, a 40-bed Therapeutic Community, a 20-bed Progression Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE) and a 20-bed Preparation PIPE.

HMP Send's Education Department runs Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Administration. The Farms and Gardens department offers Floristry NVQs, and the Works Department run an industrial workshop and painting party. Prisoners held in the Resettlement Unit can also do voluntary work, attend College courses and Work Placements in the outside community.

Notable inmates

Former

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References

  1. ↑ "HMP Send". OpenStreetMap . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Send Prison". 14 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "Jail to tackle self-harm numbers". BBC News . 9 August 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  4. ↑ Murray, James; Tominey, Camilla (29 November 2009). "Killer Fergie aide may get two years for escaping". Daily Express . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Keay, Lara (19 February 2022). "Woman suing NHS over poor mental healthcare in prison faces extradition back to the same jail". Sky News. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  6. ↑ Hendry, Tom; Channon, Max (15 October 2018). "Vanessa George's ex-husband fears she'll 'hoodwink' judge to secure release". Plymouth Herald . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Mairead Philpott: Mother who killed six children in fire freed from jail". Sky News. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. ↑ Koestler Trust (2008). "The UK's annual national show of Art by Offenders" (Art exhibition of art by offenders programme). Southbank Centre.
  9. ↑ The Ingram Collection. "The Break Up, 2012 - The Ingram Collection" (Art website displaying examples of artwork published by Thompson from prison, note that the most recent examples (2016) are also labelled "Dena, HMP Send"). Inside Out collection.

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