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His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service, which is the part of His Majesty's Government charged with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales.
HMP Bronzefield is an adult and young offender female prison located on the outskirts of Ashford in Surrey, England. Bronzefield is the only purpose-built private prison solely for women in the UK, and is the largest female prison in Europe. The prison is operated by Sodexo Justice Services.
HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England, and is immediately adjacent to the southern boundary of Belmont in Greater London. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is situated in proximity to High Down Prison for men.
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing prisons and Young Offender Institutions.
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HMP & YOI Cornton Vale was a women's prison and young offenders institution in Stirling, Scotland operated by the Scottish Prison Service. The facility comprised a total of 217 cells in its 5 houses. It accepted solely convicted women and girls from 1975 until 1978. In 1978 Parliament passed the necessary legislation to allow females to be held there on remand. Cornton Vale houses female adults and young offenders in Scotland, alongside HMP Grampian, HMP Edinburgh and HMP Polmont. In April 1999, the separation of adults and young offenders was attained. Lady Martha Bruce was the first Governor. The current Governor at Cornton Vale is Paula Arnold.
HMP Greenock is a prison located in Greenock, Scotland, serving designated courts in western Scotland by holding male prisoners on remand, and short-term convicted prisoners. It also provides a national facility for selected prisoners serving 12 years or over, affording them the opportunity for progression towards release. It also accommodates a small number of female prisoners ranging from remand to long-term. Although officially labelled as HMP Greenock, it continues to be known by its original name Gateside Prison.
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Her Majesty's Penitentiary (HMP), located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada is the primary facility for housing medium and maximum security male prisoners in Newfoundland and Labrador.
In January 2023, Isla Bryson, a 31-year-old Scottish transgender woman from Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, was convicted of the rapes of two women. The rapes occurred in 2016 and 2019, prior to Bryson's gender transition. Bryson was charged in 2019 and started transitioning in 2020. Bryson attended a beauty course in 2021 before her trial, with coursemates and courseholder Ayrshire College stating that they were unaware of Bryson's charges.
Tiffany Louise Scott was a Scottish transgender woman and sex offender, who was subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction after she admitted to stalking a 13-year-old girl by sending her letters while serving time in prison. Scott also successfully applied to be transferred from a men's to a women's prison, but the application was blocked in 2023.
References
- ↑ Frew, Sharon; Scott, Kevin (26 May 2023). "HMP Stirling: Take a look inside Scotland's new £85m women's prison". STV News . Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ Mitchell, Jenness (26 May 2023). "First look inside £85m women-only jail HMP Stirling as it gets set to welcome inmates this summer". Sky News . Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "The £85m prison with no bars on the windows". BBC News . 26 May 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "£85.7m Stirling women's prison replaces HMP Cornton Vale". Urban Realm . 5 June 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ "New prison HMP & YOI Stirling opens doors to public". Scottish Legal News . 24 May 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ↑ Hunter, Beth (14 September 2023). "Why Britain's new £85m 'superjail' has got off to an awful start". The Independent . Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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