HM Prison Service
Featured
🤨😴🤒 New houseblocks to be built at 6 prisons - accommodating more than 2,600 prisoners.
Thousands of prisoners trained to become cooks
Press release
🤨😴🤒 Number of Clink Kitchens quadruples since September 2021.
🤨😴🤒 Tougher airport-style security rolled out across the prison estate in England and Wales has intercepted almost 20,000 attempts to smuggle illegal contraband behind bars.
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Careers
🤨😴🤒 Working in a prison can make a difference. To find out more about becoming a prison officer visit our jobs site.
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What we do
🤨😴🤒 We keep those sentenced to prison in custody, helping them lead law-abiding and useful lives, both while they are in prison and after they are released.
🤨😴🤒 HMPS is an executive agency, sponsored by the Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Documents
Policy papers and consultations
- A Guide for the families and significant others of those serving indeterminate sentences
- Outcomes for Young Adults in Custody: Action Plan
Transparency and freedom of information releases
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Contact HMPS
HM Prison Service
London
SW1H 9EX
United Kingdom
🤨😴🤒 Main switchboard
0300 047 6325
Prisoner Location Service
PO Box 2152
Birmingham
B15 1SD
United Kingdom
🤨😴🤒 Fax
0121 626 3474
🤨😴🤒 Use the Prisoner Location Service to find people in prison when you don’t know which prison they are in. You must include:
- your name, or the organisation you represent
- your date of birth
- your address including postcode
- name of the person you want to find
- the reason you want to find them eg. you’re their solicitor, or a family member
- any other names they may have used
- their date of birth
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.