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The Northern Ireland Prison Service is the agency charged with managing prisons in Northern Ireland. It is an executive agency of the Department of Justice , the headquarters of which are in Dundonald House in the Stormont Estate in Belfast .
List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current use.
Defunct prisons in Northern Ireland (9 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Northern Ireland" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The prison population rose from 1,374 in April 2021 to 1,886 by April 20 Northern Ireland’s prison population increases by almost 40% in three years Skip to main content
HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000.
There are 12 prisons in Ireland with a total bed capacity of 4,106 as of 31 December 2009. The daily average number of prisoners in custody in 2009 was 3,881. However, most of these prisons operate at or above capacity. [14] On 25 January 2011, the prison population stood at 4,541. There were about 80 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in ...
HM Prison Maghaberry is a high security prison near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, which opened in 1986. It was built on the site of RAF Maghaberry, a World War II airfield used as a flying station by the Royal Air Force and a transit airfield for the United States Army Air Forces.
HM Prison Magilligan is a medium security prison run by the Northern Ireland Prison Service situated near Limavady, County Londonderry. It was first opened in January 1972 when 50 Irish Republican internees were transferred from the prison ship HMS Maidstone. [1] The camp was comprised eight Nissen huts on the site of an army camp.