HM Prison Peterborough
Location | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire |
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Security class | Category B/Adults & Young Offenders |
Capacity | 840 (August 2008) |
Opened | 2005 |
Managed by | Sodexo Justice Services |
HM Prison Peterborough is a
History
HMP Peterborough was built on the site of the former
In January 2008, a national table of prisons compiled by the Prison Service revealed that the prison had performed worst out of 132 prisons and prison clusters, with low marks for reducing re-offending, organisational effectiveness and decency.[3] A month later, women prisoners complained that the food served at the jail was too high in calories, and made them put on weight. Officials at the prison claimed that healthy options were always available.[4]
In January 2013, the Ministry of Justice announced that an additional houseblock will be constructed at the prison, increasing its capacity.[5]
On 13 April 2018, a Royal Air Force bomb disposal team deployed a bomb disposal robot to interact with a silver Volkswagen Golf at the prison.[6] Authorities later stated they had been responding to a reported bomb but it proved to be a hoax.[7]
Notable inmates
- Rekha Kumari-Baker,[8]woman who stabbed to death her own two children in 2007
- Lucy Letby,[9] neonatal nurse who murdered numerous babies that were in her care
- Chelsea O'Mahoney,[10] part of a group of youths convicted of the "happy slapping" homophobic killing of David Morley in 2005
- Emma Tustin,[11][12] woman convicted of torturing and murdering her step-son in June 2020. Sentenced in 2021.
References
- bbc.co.uk. 9 March 2005. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ "Prison 'pampering' move angers MP". bbc.co.uk. 31 May 2005. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ "Private jails 'worse than public'". bbc.co.uk. 19 January 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ "Women losing prison flab battle". bbc.co.uk. 19 February 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ "Seven prison closures in England announced". BBC News. 10 January 2013.
- ^ "Bomb disposal experts at prison in Peterborough amid ongoing incident". The Daily Telegraph. 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Bomb threat at Peterborough Prison was a "hoax"". ITV News. 14 April 2018.
- ^ "Murderer could face High Court date over trial costs". Ely Standard. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Mal, Nisha (4 October 2021). "Nurse Lucy Letby, 31, denies murder of eight babies at hospital". Cambridge News. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast #73: The Raising of David & Chelsea". Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Which jail is Emma Tustin in? Furious inmates 'toss salt at killer stepmum' who tortured Arthur Labinjo-Hughes". Yorkshire Live. 4 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' father has sentence increased but no change for murderer stepmum". CoventryLive. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2023.