Prison categories (UK)

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In the United Kingdom, prisons and their inmates are grouped into four categories - A, B, C and D - according to the level of threat posed by the prisoners, the level of supervision they require and their likelihood of attempting escape.

1 Category definitions
- 1.1 Men's prisons
- 1.2 Women's prisons
2 See also

[edit] Category definitions

[edit] Men's prisons

A Category A Prison is a maximum security prison, highly secured, and used mainly for high risk offenders such as murderers, serious sex offenders and terrorists.

A Category B Prison is for prisoners who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape needs to be made very difficult, either because they would pose a threat to themselves or society, or because they have a high likelihood of attempting to escape.

A Category C Prison is for prisoners who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape.

A Category D Prison is for prisoners who are trusted enough to wander freely but must show up for daily roll calls.

[edit] Women's prisons

Category A prisons are the same for serious female offenders, but for other women prisoners categories B and C are closed for prisoners who cannot be trusted in an open prison, and open for prisoners who are trusted enough to wander freely, although as with the men's prison regime, they must show up for daily roll calls.