His Majesty's Young Offender Institution (HMYOI) Aylesbury is a

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situated in

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. It is located on the north side of the

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centre, on

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Road and is operated by

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History

There has been a prison or gaol of some description in Aylesbury since 1810. The current prison has been on its present site since 1847. It is of early Victorian design and was modelled on Reading County Gaol, The site was in an area of public buildings that also included the

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(formerly the

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) and the Manor House Hospital. Since construction, the prison has gone through a variety of changes, starting as a county gaol, then became an adult women's prison in 1890, changing to a girls' borstal in the 1930s, and between 1959-1961 was an adult male prison, after which it became a male ''YOI'', and since 1989 has held only male long-term prisoners.HMP Service - Prisons - HMYOI Aylesbury
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Operation

In 1998 HMYOI Aylesbury was criticised after an inspection report highlighted its poor health regime, which saw the rapid turnover of five senior medical officers in two years. The report opened up a wider debate about the pay of medical staff in UK prisons compared to those in the

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. In 2001 the

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for HMYOI Aylesbury was suspended after allegations of inappropriate comments after the September 11 New York terror attacks. A year after this a study of Young Offenders' diets at Aylesbury (conducted by Surrey University) found that adding vitamins, minerals and other nutritional elements to the diets of Young Offenders 'remarkably' reduced their antisocial behaviour. HMYOI Aylesbury prison was back in the headlines in 2007 after it was revealed to have a higher rate of

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by inmates than any other Young Offenders Institution in England Following the introduction of the Prison Service's ACCT (Assessment, Care in Custody, and Teamwork) system the rate of self-harm has reduced significantly. In December 2008, police officers and Prison Service 'Tornado Teams' were called in to contain a disturbance at Aylesbury Prison, officially described as a 'Concerted Indiscipline'. The incident lasted six hours, and involved a number of inmates who were taking part in Eid celebrations. A number of these were charged with 'Prison Mutiny'. In November 2009, a Prison Officer from HMYOI Aylesbury was jailed after it emerged that she had become pregnant after having a sexual relationship with an inmate. The Prison Officer was also convicted of smuggling three mobile phones into HMYOI Aylesbury.

The prison today

As a Young Offenders Institution, HMYOI Aylesbury holds long term male inmates between the ages of 18 and 21 only. Accommodation comprises single cells in seven residential wings and one segregation unit. There are full and part-time education programmes at the YOI, which range from basic and key skills courses up to

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, French and

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and

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. Vocational courses and work programmes include

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, Motor Vehicle

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, Industrial and General

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and

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. Young Offenders also have opportunities to pursue award-based courses including the

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. In February 2013 HMYOI Aylesbury appeared in an

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documentary focusing on the lives of inmates and officers. In July 2017 a serious violent incident took place involving many inmates. Young Offenders and Prison Officers were injured some needing hospital treatment. In April 2018, a

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occurred, hospitalising four Prison Officers. Prisoners were frustrated because they spent the whole week locked in their cells and only had one chance a week to shower.

Notable inmates

Former inmates

Women

Violet Bland Violet Ann Bland (17 December 1863 – 21 March 1940) was an English suffragette and hotelier who wrote about her experiences being force fed in prison. Early life and career Bland was born in Bayston Hill, Shropshire, the oldest of nine child ...

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imprisoned and force-fed in 1912. She wrote of her experiences in ''Votes for Women''. *

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, convicted in 1902 of murdering her lover Arthur Reginald Baker, was released from Aylesbury in December 1908. *

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convicted in 1897 in the

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for murdering by poisoning her husband, Walter Carew. Carew was transferred from Yokohama (via Hong Kong) in 1897 and released in 1910M Whitthington-Egan, Murder on the Bluff *

Mathilde Carré Mathilde Carré (30 June 1908 –30 May 2007), née Mathilde Lucie Bélard and known as "La Chatte", was a French Resistance agent during World War II who betrayed and turned double agent. Early life Carré was born in Le Creusot, Saône-et- ...

, a

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agent during

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who turned

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. Carré was held at Aylesbury for the last years of the war where she acted as an informant against other detainees. Carré was deported to France after the war ended. *

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, first woman MP, commuted death sentence 1916 following the

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, released 1917. *

Florence Maybrick Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick (3 September 1862 – 23 October 1941) was an American woman convicted in the United Kingdom of murdering her husband, cotton merchant James Maybrick. Early life Florence Maybrick was born Florence Elizabet ...

, a former

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citizen who was imprisoned at Aylesbury for murdering her considerably older English husband. Maybrick was released in 1904. * Eileen Mackenney, author of "Borstal Girl" was an inmate from 1949 - 1951

Men

Jade Braithwaite Ben Michael Kinsella (27 October 1991 – 29 June 2008) was a 16-year-old student at Holloway School who was stabbed to death in an attack by three men in June 2008 in Islington. The significant media attention around his murder (the 17th sta ...

was at HMYOI Aylesbury for a time after being convicted of the murder of 16-year-old

Ben Kinsella Ben Michael Kinsella (27 October 1991 – 29 June 2008) was a 16-year-old student at Holloway School who was stabbed to death in an attack by three men in June 2008 in Islington. The significant media attention around his murder (the 17th st ...

. He was ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years. *Ryan Herbert was transferred to HMYOI Aylesbury from HMP Stoke on Heath in 2012 , he was convicted in 2008 of killing Sophie Lancaster and sentenced to 15 and a half years

References

External links

Ministry of Justice on HMYOI AylesburyHMYOI Aylesbury - HM Inspectorate of Prisons ReportsVictorian Prisoners Database
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History of Aylesbury Prison from theprison.org.uk
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