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25/10/2013
MoJ Announce Closure Of Two Female Prisons
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced the closure of two women's open prisons in Yorkshire and Kent.
Announcing the closures the MoJ said that provision for the displaced inmates would be made by refurbishing Eastwood Park and Foston Hall prisons and modifying buildings at Drake Hall.
News of the closure of Askham Grange, Yorkshire, and East Sutton Park, Kent, follows an earlier announcement of a plan for female inmates to serve out sentences nearer to home.
The reforms, announced by Lord McNally, the minister for female offenders, will makes women's jails so-called "resettlement prisons" intended to locate women close to home and help re-integrate them into society.
(MH/CD)
Announcing the closures the MoJ said that provision for the displaced inmates would be made by refurbishing Eastwood Park and Foston Hall prisons and modifying buildings at Drake Hall.
News of the closure of Askham Grange, Yorkshire, and East Sutton Park, Kent, follows an earlier announcement of a plan for female inmates to serve out sentences nearer to home.
The reforms, announced by Lord McNally, the minister for female offenders, will makes women's jails so-called "resettlement prisons" intended to locate women close to home and help re-integrate them into society.
(MH/CD)
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