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HM Prison Wakefield
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Background
His Majesty's Prison Wakefield is a Category A men's prison in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. The prison has been nicknamed the "Monster Mansion" along with HM Prison Frankland due to the large number of high-profile, high-risk sex offenders and murderers held there.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1594
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
His Majesty's Prison ServicePopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1594
Region
Wakefield
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
- Brian Cleeve1921–2003 · fencer
Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 â 11 March 2003) was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories.
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Ian Watkins1977–2025 · singerIan David Karslake Watkins (30 July 1977 â 11 October 2025) was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender.
- Peter Moore1940 · criminal
Peter Howard Moore (born 19 September 1946) is a British serial killer who managed cinemas in Bagillt, Holyhead, Kinmel Bay and Denbigh in North Wales at the time of his arrest.
- Ian Huntley1974–2026 · murderer
On 4 August 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Huntley, in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.
- 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.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
- HMP WandsworthLondonHighLocal159% occupancy
- HMP FranklandDurhamMaximumLocal100% occupancy
- HMP BarlinnieGlasgowHighLocal147% occupancy
- HMP Cookham WoodKentHighLocal
- HMP PentonvilleLondonHighYOI137% occupancy
- HMP StyalWilmslowHighClosed female
Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5635276)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). HM Prison Wakefield. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-wakefield
"HM Prison Wakefield." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hm-prison-wakefield.
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