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Work within Prisons
Humberside Probation Trust is contracted to provide seconded staff to both public and private sector prisons. They deliver a number of services and interventions which vary from prison to prison as each custodial institution serves differing populations at different periods within their sentence.
Humberside Probation staff currently work in HMP Hull, HMP Full Sutton, HMP Everthorpe and HMP Wolds.
HMP Hull is a local prison which contains a large proportion of men on remand waiting for conviction and sentence. Immediately following sentence convicted prisoners are returned to Hull where they are assessed before, in most cases, being moved to other establishments to serve the custodial part of their sentence. Those offenders sentenced to short periods of custody and those who are assessed as requiring access to the interventions specifically available at this establishment may remain within HMP Hull.
HMP Everthorpe and HMP Wolds are male category ‘C’ training prisons where specific work and interventions, as detailed on an individual’s sentence plan, can be delivered. Prisoners remain within these establishments until released or until moved to another prison either as a result of re-categorisation or the need to undergo a specific intervention available elsewhere. A number of prisoners serving life sentences who are nearing release are also located within these two establishments.
HMP Full Sutton is a male high security prison which takes the most serious offenders from around the country who are generally serving long sentences or who are seen as posing too many risks to be accommodated within prisons of less security. Prisoners are assessed for interventions according to their sentence plan and, following work completed and evidence of presenting risks being reduced, will in most cases transfer to category ‘C’ training prisons before release.
Prison Probation teams are currently managed by a Senior Probation Officer who, in close co-operation with Prison Governors, delivers an agreed range of services and interventions as outlined within a Business Plan specific to the needs and nature of the individual prison.
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