HMP Send

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Originally an Isolation Hospital, Send first 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.

Re-rolled in 1998 and completely rebuilt by 1999, Send currently operates as a closed Female Training Prison. It also houses a 20 bed Drug Treatment Unit (RAPT Programme), an 80 bed Resettlement Unit and a Therapeutic Community with a capacity of 40.

Governor: Brian Ritchie

Operational capacity: 218 as of 24th October 2006

Accommodation: Wings A-C combine to form the Main Block of the Prison, A-Wing housing VDTs and the Therapeutic Community. The RAPT programme is run out of a separate Unit, D-Wing, with accommodation for 20. E and F Wings, again, separated from the main Prison, make up the Resettlement Unit.

Regime: Send features an Education Department running Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Admin, a Farms and Gardens work party offering Floristry NVQs, an industrial workshop and painting party run by the Works Department. In addition to this, opportunities for those on the Resettlement Unit include voluntary work, attending College courses and Work Placements in the outside community. This is subject to stringent eligibility testing and the keeping of a signed Compact agreement between Prisoners and the Resettlement Staff.

www.justice.gov.uk/contacts/prison-finder/send/