HM Prison Send

HM Prison Send is a closed category women's prison in the extreme south of Ripley nearer Send in Surrey, England. Its post town is Woking. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

HMP Send
LocationRipley, Surrey[1]
Security classAdult Female/Closed Category
Population282 (as of May 2009)
Opened1962
Managed byHM Prison Services
GovernorCarlene Dixon
WebsiteSend at justice.gov.uk

History

A smallpox isolation hospital on its site 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. Send was demolished and completely rebuilt by 1999, opening as a closed Female Training Prison.

In August 2005, a report by the Independent Monitoring Board criticised a marked increase in self-harm and suicide amongst inmates and lack of staff, whereas it praised the prison's education provision and its farms and gardens scheme.[2]

The prison today

Send is a closed prison for adult females. It houses an 80-bed Resettlement Unit, a 40-bed Therapeutic Community, a 20-bed Progression PIPE and a 20-bed Preparation PIPE.

HMP Send's Education Department runs Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Administration. The Farms and Gardens department offers Floristry NVQs, and the Works Department run an industrial workshop and painting party. Prisoners held in the Resettlement Unit can also do voluntary work, attend College courses and Work Placements in the outside community.

Notable inmates
gollark: But then how will they punish people arbitrarily for "breaking the rules"?
gollark: They really should actually document the rules they arbitrarily make up somewhere central.
gollark: This is one of those things where TJ09 possibly could but likely won't ever bother. Or maybe we need autorefreshers which fuzz the times a bit.
gollark: Also, I said easily.
gollark: Varying network latency and stuff.

References
  1. "HMP Send". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. "Jail to tackle self-harm numbers". BBC News. 9 August 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  3. Murray, James; Tominey, Camilla (29 November 2009). "Killer Fergie aide may get two years for escaping". Daily Express. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  4. Hendry, Tom; Channon, Max (15 October 2018). "Vanessa George's ex-husband fears she'll 'hoodwink' judge to secure release". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 30 September 2019.

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