United Kingdom · Yorkshire and the Humber · Wakefield
HMP New Hall
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit HMP New Hall
Step-by-step guidance using the United Kingdom system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Holds adult women and young female adults. Mother-and-baby unit accommodates infants up to 18 months.
Background
HMP New Hall is a closed-category prison for female adults, juveniles, and young offenders. The prison is located in the village of Flockton (near Wakefield) in West Yorkshire, England. New Hall is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
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Capacity
425
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1987
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
HM Prison & Probation Service
Population held
female
Opened
1987
Region
Yorkshire and the Humber
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
HMI Prisons publishes independent inspection reports on roughly a 3-5 year cycle.
Visiting
Booked online via the GOV.UK Prison Visits Booking system. Photo ID required. Visit frequency depends on the inmate's Incentives & Earned Privileges (IEP) level.
Mailing
Format: Prisoner Name & Number, HMP New Hall, Dial Wood, Flockton, WF4 4XX. Cash not accepted — use Send Money to a Prisoner (GOV.UK).
Practical info
Assisted Prison Visits Unit helps low-income families with travel costs. Pact runs many of the on-site visitor centres.
Known issues
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
Compared to other facilities in United Kingdom
583 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United Kingdom.
Data completeness
94%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- GOV.UK — HMP New Hall
- HMI Prisons inspection reports
- Find a prison — GOV.UK — UK Ministry of Justice / HMPPS
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons — reports — HMI Prisons (UK)
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.