- Kirkham (HM Prison)
Infobox HM Prison
name = HMP Kirkham
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opened =1962
type = Adult Male/Category D
figures = 590 (August 2008)
location =Kirkham, Lancashire
governor = John Hewitson
prisonid = 468Kirkham Open Prison is located southwest of
Kirkham, Lancashire ,England . It is situated on Freckleton road and next to aresidential area .The prison is a category D training prison with accommodation for up to 628 adult male inmates. [ [http://www.criminal-information-agency.com/prison_record_1.php?prisonchoice=70 Criminal information agency] ] It occupies the site of a former
RAF technical training centre. The facility was taken over by the Home Office in the early 1960s and has been in use as a prison since 1962. With few exceptions the infrastructure and services together with the buildings are of World War II vintage, though prisoner accommodation is relatively new. [ [http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=468,15,2,15,468,0 HM Prison Service] ] The original inmate accommodation consists of twenty-one single storey blocks, laid out in two parallel East-West lines, denoted A, B, C and D Wings. Since 1990 additional blocks have been built.Inmates have usually committed low level crimes such as
fraud ,tax evasion or other crimes of that naturefact|date=July 2007.References
External links
* [http://www.hmpkirkham.co.uk/visit/visiting.asp Visiting Kirkham]
* [http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/latest-press-releases/press-releases-2005/hmp_kirkham-13un051.pdf Inspectorates report]
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