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HM Prison Hydebank Wood, also known as Hydebank Wood College and Women's Prison, [1] is a women's prison and young offender's centre located in South Belfast.
Officially HM Prison Hydebank Wood, this is a medium-to-low-security establishment accommodating male young offenders and all female prisoners (including female immigration detainees). The service's primary Prison Officer training facility, the Prison Service College, is based at Hydebank Wood.
HM Prison Belmarsh is an example of a Category A prison. They are the equivalent of a supermax/maximum security prison in the United States for example. Category B – 'Those who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape still needs to be made very difficult'.
Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women’s Prison has become the first unit in Northern Ireland to secure outcomes at the “highest achievable level”, two independent reports have found.
Justice Minister Naomi Long says the improvements were the result of “many years hard work”.
As late as 1885, 75% of all prison inmates were involved in some sort of productive endeavour, mostly in private contract and leasing systems. By 1935, the portion of prisoners working had fallen to 44%, and almost 90% of those worked in state-run programmes rather than for private contractors.
His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part of His Majesty's Government charged with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own prison services: the Scottish Prison Service and the ...
Purdysburn House itself, which had been built on the western part of the site, was demolished in 1965 and HM Prison Hydebank Wood was built in that location in 1979. [5]