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HMP New Hall is a
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prison
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for female adults, juveniles and young offenders. The prison is located in the village of
Flockton
Flockton is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, halfway between Huddersfield, 7 miles (11 km) away and Wakefield, 8 miles (13 km) away.
It is in the parish of Kirkburton and whilst it is in Kirklees, it has a Wakefield postcode. T ...
(near
Wakefield
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) in
West Yorkshire
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,
England
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. New Hall is operated by
His Majesty's Prison Service.
History
In 1933, New Hall became the first prison to implement the then-experimental Open Prison system. This was seen as a potential method for dealing with the combined problems of the rising numbers of prisoners and the lack of proper employment for them. At first, the prison was populated by prisoners from
HMP Wakefield who were soon due to be released, but in 1961 the prison became a Senior Detention Centre for male young offenders.
It was during this time that, on some occasions, the '
Short, sharp shock
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' regime was introduced. In 1987 the prison was assigned to serve a different population, when it was re-designated for a second time to become a women's prison.
In 1999, the
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programme ''Jailbirds'' was filmed at the prison with the producers being given unlimited access to the inmates for a period of eight months.
The prison today
Currently, New Hall is a closed female local prison which holds all categories of adult female prisoners. Beside this, it caters for young offenders and juveniles who are on Detention and Training Orders. Accommodation at the prison is mainly in cells. There is a mother & baby unit, health care centre, segregation unit and some dormitories.
This prison provides full and part-time education courses for prisoners in areas such as business administration, food hygiene, literacy, numeracy and
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,
BTEC and
Art
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. New Hall has workshops where inmates can be given experience of assembly work, light
textile
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work,
catering
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and gardening. Employment and careers advice by the
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is also available. The prison's governor is Julia Spence. The
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has received
planning permission
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to install solar panels at the site in a bid to reduce the prison's
carbon footprint
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.
Notable inmates
Notable people held at the prison include:
*
Sarah Barrass, mother who in 2019 murdered two of her children and attempted to murder four others via poisoning and strangulation
*
Tanya French
Alan Robert Webster (born 1965 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is a high-profile English prisoner who pleaded guilty to several counts of rape against a 12-week-old baby girl, and making indecent images in January 2006. The girl was being babysat by hi ...
, baby rapist (since released)
*
Frankie Smith
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Career
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, mother who murdered her child
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in 2020 with her female partner Savannah Brockhill
* Katrina Walsh, killer
*
Rosemary West
Rosemary Pauline West (née Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least nine young women between 1973 and 1987; , serial killer
References
External links
Ministry of Justice pages on New HallBBC Radio 4 programme about New Hall
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Prisons in West Yorkshire
Women's prisons in England
Young Offender Institutions in England
Juvenile prisons in England