HMP Leyhill

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Leyhill originally opened as hutted accommodation (formerly a wartime hospital) in 1946. Leyhill is in South Gloucestershire and is the only minimum-security prison in the South West Area.

Leyhill was rebuilt in the late 1970s to early 1980s and in 1986 prisoners were re-housed in new living accommodation. In 2002 new accommodation units were added enabling the prison to cater for 512 prisoners.

Governor: Mick Bell

Operational capacity: 508 as of 24th November 2006

Reception criteria: Adult males mostly from the South West Area. Many transfer from other establishments after re-categorisation to category D. Also holds life sentence prisoners, allocated nationally.

www.justice.gov.uk/contacts/prison-finder/leyhill/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Leyhill
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Coordinates:   51°37'40"N   2°26'24"W
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