HMP PARKHURST caters for long-term and life sentence category B prisoners and the remands from the Isle of Wight courts. It is also the base for the catering and healthcare facilities that serve the three Isle of Wight prisons (Albany and Camphill as well as Parkhurst).We cover are the problems and benefits of running a ‘cluster’ of prisons with Gov Barry Greenbury. How the Gymnasium became a centre of excellence, the provision of workshop ‘purposeful activity’ and how training and education is provided across such a large establishment.

STAFF FITNESS FACILITY
An up to date Fitness Facility has just opened for the staff and their families at HMP Full Sutton. The facility is in conjunction with the C.S.S.C. (Civil Service Sports Council). The facility is available 24/7 and is located outside the main prison in the same building as our training department.
The project has taken just short of 18 months to get to this point with the help of Governor, Deputy Governor and Alan Peed, Sharon Ashby from the C.S.S.C.

CONSERVATIVE SHADOW FOR PRISONS & PROBATION
Alan Duncan MP, is talking to the Review on what conservative policies will mean for the custody sector. We ask him about funding, building, privatisation, early release and tackling recidivism.

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT SHADOW FOR JUSTICE
'Instead of using prison and sentencing as a proxy for real action on crime, the Liberal Democrats will use alternative measures that are proven to reduce re-offending. These include community justice panels, the nationwide use of restorative justice and rigorous community punishments as an alternative to short-term prison sentences'.- We talk to their spokesman on this policys impact on custody.

HMP & YOI PARC is run by G4S Care and Justice Services. The facility is undergoing a massive expansion programme to increase capacity. The opening is due in May. We are covering this in two editions and will be looking at the process from start to finish. Parc is a Category B local prison housing approximately 1200 male adults (convicted only), young offenders (convicted and remand) and young people (convicted and remand).The prison opened in November 1997 and is the only private prison in Wales.

BLACKPOOL -a newly refurbished custody suite.
The revamped suite, which includes two glass-fronted observation cells, two extra interview rooms, a newly dedicated prisoner entrance point, an improved custody desk and an improved back room area.
Chief Insp Andrea Barrow from Blackpool Police Station said: “The refurbished custody suite will ultimately increase the capacity of the cells and will allow us to deal more efficiently with prisoners