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HM Prison Parkhurst
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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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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1805
Operational
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Facility profile
Operator
His Majesty's Prison ServicePopulation held
Male
Opened
1805
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Charles Bronson1952 · 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 Fraser1923–2014 · autobiographer
Francis Davidson Fraser (13 December 1923 â 26 November 2014), better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser, was an English gangster who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences.
Radovan KaradžiÄ1945 · politicianRadovan KaradžiÄ (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован ÐаÑаÑиÑ, pronounced [râdovaËn kâradÊitÉ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War.
- Peter Sutcliffe1946–2020 · truck driver
Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 â 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 Clark1944–1983 · drug trafficker
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Contact & address
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Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
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Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q3403982)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). HM Prison Parkhurst. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-parkhurst
Chicago
"HM Prison Parkhurst." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 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 = {2026-07-21}
}