What is a Category A prison?

Category A – Category A prisoners are those that would pose the most threat to the public, the police or national security should they escape. Security conditions in category A prisons are designed to make escape impossible for these prisoners.

What classes are Category A prisoners?

Initial Category A Category A prisoners are defined as “those whose escape would be highly dangerous to the public or national security”. Category A prisoners are further separated into standard risk, high risk, and exceptional risk, depending on how likely they are to try to escape.

What are Category C crimes?

To be placed in a category C prison, the prisoner must fulfil at least one of these criteria. They have a previous sentence of 12 months or more for crimes such as violence, arson, drug dealing, importation, threat of violence or sex-related offences.

What are Category B crimes?

They’re serving a sentence for an offence involving threat to life or violence, threat of arson, robbery, drugs, sexual offences or firearms offences.

What is a Category C crime?

What prisons are Category B?

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  • HM Prison Bedford.
  • HM Prison Birmingham.
  • HM Prison Bristol.
  • HM Prison Brixton.
  • HM Prison Bullingdon.

What are Category C prisons like?

Category C prisons are for inmates who cannot be trusted in open prison, but who have been recognised as being unlikely to make any attempt at escape. To be placed in a category C prison, the prisoner must fulfil at least one of these criteria.

Why are inmates moved to different prisons?

Sometimes people are moved from a prison they know to a busy prison where they feel less safe. The most common reasons for transfer are because someone’s security category has changed or for sentence progression. Prison service policy says that people must be held in the lowest possible security category.

What is Category B and C images?

Category B: ‘Possession of images involving • non-penetrative sexual activity’. Category C: ‘Images of erotic posing’.

What are the different categories in a prison?

This page provides an overview of the different security categories we have in our prison service, ranging from category A (highest security) down to category D (lowest security). Category A. These are high security prisons. They house male prisoners who, if they were to escape, pose the most threat to the public, the police or national security.

Where is the Whatton prison in the UK?

Whatton at justice.gov.uk. HM Prison Whatton is a Category C men’s prison, located in the village of Whatton, near Bingham in Nottinghamshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service, and houses men who have been convicted for offences of a sexual nature.

How many sex offenders are in Whatton prison?

HMP Whatton specialises in housing sex offenders, all of whom must undergo the Sex Offenders Treatment Programme. The prison originally opened in 1966 as a detention centre. Now, it is a category C adult male prison and has a capacity of 841.

What kind of prison is HMP Whatton for?

HMP Whatton specialises in housing sex offenders, all of whom must undergo the Sex Offenders Treatment Programme. The prison originally opened in 1966 as a detention centre. Now, it is a category C adult male prison and has a capacity of 841. To be accepted in the prison, inmates need to have at least six months left to serve on their sentence.