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prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...
and
Young Offenders Institution
His Majesty's Young Offender Institution (or HMYOI) is a type of prison in Great Britain, intended for offenders aged up to 18, although some prisons cater for younger offenders from ages 15 to 17, who are classed as juvenile offenders. Typically t ...
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
,
England
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. The prison is operated by
His Majesty's Prison Service
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 Wale ...
.
History
The original Manor of
Foston and Scropton
Foston and Scropton is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the River Dove, Derbyshire, Dove valley in South Derbyshire. It includes the village of Scropton and Hamlet (place), hamlet of Foston, Derbyshire, Foston. The population of the c ...
was held by the Agard family from the 14th to the 17th century. It was bought by John Bate in 1679. Richard Bate was
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
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in 1705.''The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby'' Vol 1 (1831) Stephen Glover. Appendix p. 12 Queen Anne. Google Books Brownlow Bate sold the estate to John Broadhurst in 1784. The 17th century
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
was destroyed by fire in 1836, but many parts of that house survive.
A new
Jacobethan
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Nottingham
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and built in 1863. Its main two storey front has eight bays and an off-centre three-storey tower. The house is now a
Grade II listed building
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.
HM Prison Service acquired the hall and grounds in 1953. During its Prison Service history Foston Hall has been a detention centre, an
immigration
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centre, and finally before its closure during 1996 a satellite of Sudbury Prison. It was re-opened on 31 July 1997, following major refurbishment and building work, as a closed-category female prison.
The prison today
Foston Hall Prison is spread over 5 wings; C, D, E, F, T and the First Night Centre. (A & B were recently demolished). During the
COVID-19
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pandemic, a wing of temporary accommodation (designated G Wing) was constructed to isolate prisoners whose roles were vital to the running of the prison (Kitchens, Laundry etc) in case of a severe outbreak. The prison can accommodate both remand and convicted. Foston Hall also has a Health Care Centre.
The prison provides inmates with work in the prison
garden
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s, the
gym
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, the
textile
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and
craft
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workshop and the
kitchen
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s, all of which can lead to qualifications. In addition the prison's education department offers
NVQ
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are practical work-based awards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that are achieved through assessment and training. The regulatory framework supporting NVQs was withdrawn in 2015 and replaced by the ...
s in
Cleaning
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Services and
hairdressing
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, as well as basic and key skills learning.
Notable inmates
Current
* Georgina Henshaw – waitress who stabbed her restaurant's chef to death after boasting of her intentions to friends, sentenced to 16 years imprisonment in 2018.
*
Lauren Jeska
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– transgender fell runner from Lancaster convicted of the attempted murder of
Ralph Knibbs
Ralph Andrew Knibbs is an English former rugby union player who played for Bristol.
Rugby career
He made his debut as a seventeen-year-old against Pontypridd RFC in 1982, scoring with his first touch of the ball.Jessica Lynas – contributed to the
murder of Gemma Hayter
Gemma Hayter was a disabled woman who was tortured and murdered by three people she considered her friends in Rugby, Warwickshire, England on 8 August 2010. The case bears a resemblance to the murder of Jennifer Daugherty, a disabled woman who was ...
in 2010, which was the subject of the
BBC Three
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documentary ''Gemma: My Murder''
*
Louise Porton
Louise Porton (born 1996) is a British double murderer who came to public attention in 2019 when she was convicted of murdering her two children as they "got in the way" of her sex life. Between 2 January and 1 February 2018, she repeatedly atta ...
– Woman who murdered her two children in 2018.
*
Lorraine Thorpe
Lorraine Thorpe (born 1994) is a British woman who is Britain's youngest female double murderer. Over the space of nine days in August 2009, Thorpe tortured and murdered two people in Ipswich, one her own father. She came to national attention u ...
– Britain's youngest female double murderer at the age of 15. One of those she killed was her own father. She will be eligible for parole in 2023.
* Zara Phythian – '' Dr Strange'' actress. She was jailed for eight years for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.
Former
* Maxine Carr – Sentenced to three and a half years' prison for lying about her knowledge of the
Soham murders
The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and ...
.
*
Karen Matthews
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– Kidnapper.
* Melanie Shaw – Arsonist. Subject to several conspiracy theories linked to her whistle blowing of Beechwood Children's Home abuse.
See also
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Listed buildings in Foston and Scropton
Foston and Scropton is a civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains seven listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at G ...