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Lima100

Lima100 Report 20 Nov 2009 10:29

Does anyone come from this area of Suffolk/Norfolk? Is there a prison there? I think one of my distant relations died in prison there in 1968. Dont know if he was a famous forger or a pick pocket!!! Just wondered the status of the prison.
Lima

Julia

Julia Report 20 Nov 2009 11:13

Hi,
Just doing a quick google it looks like this is it

Blundeston is a category C training prison providing a therapeutic community, an assessment unit, skills training and education, and accredited offending behaviour courses.

The prison was built and opened in 1963 with four single cell wings for 288 prisoners. In 1975 two multi-cell wings (F and G) were added bringing the CNA to 408.

Old hospital cells were reclaimed as an induction unit and a new 40 space unit built which houses the Therapeutic Community.

In 2008 a new 60 space unit was built as part of the Capacity Build Project, which currently houses indeterminate sentence prisoners and enhanced.



Address:

Blundeston

Lowestoft

Suffolk



Blundeston is in Lothingland, the northernmost hundred of Suffolk. It is a tongue of land enclosed by the Waveney which turns N after leaving Beccles so that it may reach the sea at Yarmouth rather than Lowestoft.

Hope that helps!!

Julia (in Cambs)

Researching:
Rogers, Angus, Royston, Strickland, Nayler, Mountain,

MissFitz

MissFitz Report 20 Nov 2009 12:10

There's Norwich Prison