Feltham prison

Need information on Feltham Prison? Feltham Prison was first built in 1854 and was originally used as an Industrial School. In 1910, the building was taken over by the Prison Commission to be used as a second Borstal institution. Since 1988, Feltham Prison has been used as a remand centre.

The building has an operation capacity of 764 and receives young people from the age of 15-18 that are unsuitable or not warranting secure local authority accommodation. In addition, young adults from the age 18 to 21, placed in custody by the courts, are also held at Feltham Prison.

Young people and young adults are housed in different sections of the institute. There are eight units for young people, each unit holding 30 people, and for young adults there are ten units, eight of which hold 56, one that holds forty four and there is an additional enhanced unit of sixteen.

Nearly all of the young people's quarters are for single occupation and in the young adult units there is a mixture of double and single rooms. The regime of this facility focuses on education, part time/full time, as well as vocational training in construction industry, farm and garden work, and NVQ's, to aid in prisoner's personal progress. There is also various support groups including STAR (Stop, Think, Act, Reflect), Understanding Anger and IPRS, as well as the use of voluntary agencies like one to one teaching, substance misuse work, and pre release courses, all geared toward aiding in prisoners future re-assimilation into society.