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Background

HM Prison Parkhurst is a Category B men's prison located in Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, and is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Parkhurst prison is one of two formerly separate prisons that today make up HMP Isle of Wight, the other being Albany.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1805

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 22 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Male

Opened

1805

Region

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Security level

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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Visiting

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Mailing

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Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Charles Bronson
    1952 · poet

    Charles Arthur Salvador (born Michael Gordon Peterson; 6 December 1952; formerly known as Charles Ali Ahmed), better known by his professional name of Charles Bronson, is an English criminal notorious for his violent life both between and during multiple prison sentences.

  • Frankie Fraser
    1923–2014 · autobiographer

    Francis Davidson Fraser (13 December 1923 – 26 November 2014), better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser, was an English gangster who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences.

  • Radovan Karadžić
    Radovan Karadžić
    1945 · politician

    Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced [râdovaːn kâradʒitɕ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War.

  • Peter Sutcliffe
    1946–2020 · truck driver

    Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.

  • Terrance John Clark
    1944–1983 · drug trafficker

Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.

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World Prisons. (2026). HM Prison Parkhurst. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-parkhurst
Chicago
"HM Prison Parkhurst." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-parkhurst.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hm-prison-parkhurst,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {HM Prison Parkhurst},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-parkhurst},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}