Prison directory

Every UK prison: pay, category and jobs

143 establishments across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each page shows what a Band 3 prison officer is paid there, any market supplement, the HMPPS functional group, capacity, the latest inspection and how to apply, with a source and a date on every figure.

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Establishments: 143
With a market supplement: 19
Privately run (E&W): 15
Open prisons (HMPPS group): 14

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Geographic regions, so a prison is always where you expect it. HMPPS also manages prisons in its own prison regions for workforce reporting; those are shown on each prison page.

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This is the prison's role label from the 2025/26 performance ratings, not the security category of each prisoner. Scottish and Northern Ireland prisons, and four establishments with no published group, are not in a group.

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Band 3 figures are the 2026/27 entry pay point on a 39-hour contract including the 20% unsocial hours allowance and any listed supplement; "n/a" means HMPPS bands do not apply (private, Scottish and Northern Ireland prisons). Capacity is HMPPS operational capacity at 24 August 2026; a joint figure appears against both sites for the three jointly reported pairs.

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All UK prisons in this directory (alphabetical)

Prison	Region	Town	Type	HMPPS group	Run by	Capacity	Band 3 entry, 39h	Supplement
Bella Centre (Community Custody Unit)	Scotland	Dundee (Hilltown)	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Askham Grange	Yorkshire and the Humber	Askham Richard, near York	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	128	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Brinsford	West Midlands	Featherstone, Wolverhampton	HMP & YOI	Category C Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	577	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Bronzefield	South East	Ashford	HMP & YOI	Female	Private	527	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Chelmsford	East of England	Chelmsford	HMP & YOI	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	639	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Deerbolt	North East	Barnard Castle	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	490	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Doncaster	Yorkshire and the Humber	Doncaster	HMP & YOI	Reception	Private	1,145	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Downview	London	Sutton	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	356	£45,290	£2,000
HMP & YOI Drake Hall	West Midlands	Eccleshall	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	338	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI East Sutton Park	South East	Maidstone	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	100	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Eastwood Park	South West	Wotton-under-Edge	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	371	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Foston Hall	East Midlands	Foston	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	314	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Grampian	Scotland	Peterhead	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Hatfield	Yorkshire and the Humber	near Doncaster (Hatfield Main and Hatfield Lakes)	HMP & YOI	Open	Public (HMPPS)	358	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Hindley	North West	Bickershaw, near Wigan	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	600	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay	East of England	Woodbridge	HMP & YOI	Open	Public (HMPPS)	655	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Hull	Yorkshire and the Humber	Hull	HMP & YOI	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,017	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Isis	London	Thamesmead, London	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	628	£41,290	None
HMP & YOI Lincoln	East Midlands	Lincoln	HMP & YOI	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	576	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Low Newton	North East	Brasside, Durham	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	298	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Moorland	Yorkshire and the Humber	near Doncaster	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,037	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI New Hall	Yorkshire and the Humber	Flockton, near Wakefield	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	337	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Norwich	East of England	Norwich	HMP & YOI	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	712	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Parc	Wales	Bridgend	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Private	1,849	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Peterborough	East of England	Westwood, Peterborough	HMP & YOI	Female / Reception	Private	1,304	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Polmont	Scotland	Brightons, Falkirk	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Portland	South West	Isle of Portland	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	537	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Prescoed	Wales	Coed-y-Paen, near Pontypool	HMP & YOI	Open	Public (HMPPS)	496	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Rochester	South East	Rochester	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	766	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Stirling	Scotland	Stirling	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP & YOI Stoke Heath	West Midlands	Market Drayton	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	754	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Styal	North West	Wilmslow	HMP & YOI	Female	Public (HMPPS)	454	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Swinfen Hall	West Midlands	near Lichfield	HMP & YOI	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	624	£37,131	None
HMP & YOI Thorn Cross	North West	Appleton Thorn, Warrington	HMP & YOI	Open	Public (HMPPS)	429	£37,131	None
HMP Addiewell	Scotland	Addiewell	SPS	Not published	Private	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Altcourse	North West	Liverpool (Fazakerley)	HMP	Reception	Private	1,144	n/a	n/a
HMP Ashfield	South West	Pucklechurch, Bristol	HMP	Category C Trainer	Private	415	n/a	n/a
HMP Aylesbury	South East	Aylesbury	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	402	£43,131	£3,000
HMP Barlinnie	Scotland	Glasgow (Riddrie)	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Bedford	East of England	Bedford	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	378	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Belmarsh	London	Thamesmead, London	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	773	£41,290	None
HMP Berwyn	Wales	Wrexham	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	2,000	£37,131	None
HMP Birmingham	West Midlands	Birmingham (Winson Green)	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,003	£37,131	None
HMP Bristol	South West	Bristol (Horfield)	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	580	£37,131	None
HMP Brixton	London	Brixton, London	HMP	Category C Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	673	£43,453	None
HMP Buckley Hall	North West	Rochdale	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	469	£37,131	None
HMP Bullingdon	South East	Bicester	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,112	£44,131	£3,500
HMP Bure	East of England	near Norwich	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	643	£37,131	None
HMP Cardiff	Wales	Cardiff	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	777	£37,131	None
HMP Castle Huntly	Scotland	Longforgan, near Dundee	SPS	Open	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Channings Wood	South West	Newton Abbot	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	776	£37,131	None
HMP Coldingley	South East	Woking	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	513	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Cookham Wood	South East	Rochester	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	137	£37,131	None
HMP Dartmoor	South West	Princetown	HMP	Not published	Public (HMPPS)	n/a	£37,131	None
HMP Dovegate	West Midlands	Uttoxeter	HMP	Category B	Private	1,160	n/a	n/a
HMP Dumfries	Scotland	Dumfries	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Durham	North East	Durham	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	965	£37,131	None
HMP Edinburgh	Scotland	Edinburgh (Stenhouse)	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Elmley	South East	Isle of Sheppey	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	923	£44,131	£3,500
HMP Erlestoke	South West	Erlestoke, near Devizes	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	512	£37,131	None
HMP Exeter	South West	Exeter	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	310	£37,131	None
HMP Featherstone	West Midlands	Featherstone, Wolverhampton	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	642	£37,131	None
HMP Five Wells	East Midlands	Wellingborough	HMP	Category C Resettlement	Private	1,733	n/a	n/a
HMP Ford	South East	Arundel	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	389	£37,131	None
HMP Forest Bank	North West	Pendlebury, Salford	HMP	Reception	Private	1,470	n/a	n/a
HMP Fosse Way	East Midlands	Leicester	HMP	Category C Resettlement	Private	1,960	n/a	n/a
HMP Frankland	North East	Brasside, Durham	HMP	High Security	Public (HMPPS)	846	£37,131	None
HMP Full Sutton	Yorkshire and the Humber	Full Sutton, near York	HMP	High Security	Public (HMPPS)	594	£37,131	None
HMP Garth	North West	near Leyland	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	791	£37,131	None
HMP Gartree	East Midlands	Market Harborough	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	697	£37,131	None
HMP Glenochil	Scotland	Tullibody	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Greenock	Scotland	Greenock	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Grendon	South East	Grendon Underwood	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	546	£40,131	£1,500
HMP Guys Marsh	South West	near Shaftesbury	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	445	£37,131	None
HMP Haverigg	North West	near Millom	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	544	£37,131	None
HMP Hewell	West Midlands	Tardebigge, near Redditch	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,074	£37,131	None
HMP High Down	London	Sutton	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,133	£45,290	£2,000
HMP Highpoint	East of England	Stradishall, near Newmarket	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,160	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Holme House	North East	Stockton-on-Tees	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,123	£37,131	None
HMP Humber	Yorkshire and the Humber	Brough, near Hull	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,079	£37,131	None
HMP Huntercombe	South East	near Henley-on-Thames	HMP	Category C Foreign National	Public (HMPPS)	520	£40,131	£1,500
HMP Inverness	Scotland	Inverness	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Isle of Wight	South East	Newport (Albany and Parkhurst sites)	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	968	£37,131	None
HMP Kilmarnock	Scotland	Kilmarnock (Hurlford)	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Kirkham	North West	Kirkham	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	618	£37,131	None
HMP Kirklevington Grange	North East	Yarm / Stockton-on-Tees	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	187	£37,131	None
HMP Lancaster Farms	North West	Lancaster	HMP	Category C Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	584	£37,131	None
HMP Leeds	Yorkshire and the Humber	Leeds (Armley)	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,090	£37,131	None
HMP Leicester	East Midlands	Leicester	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	303	£37,131	None
HMP Lewes	South East	Lewes	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	627	£37,131	None
HMP Leyhill	South West	near Wotton-under-Edge	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	474	£37,131	None
HMP Lindholme	Yorkshire and the Humber	near Doncaster	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	1,010	£37,131	None
HMP Littlehey	East of England	near Huntingdon	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	1,243	£37,131	None
HMP Liverpool	North West	Liverpool (Walton)	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	840	£37,131	None
HMP Long Lartin	West Midlands	near Evesham	HMP	High Security	Public (HMPPS)	537	£37,131	None
HMP Low Moss	Scotland	Bishopbriggs	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Lowdham Grange	East Midlands	Lowdham, near Nottingham	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	842	£37,131	None
HMP Maghaberry	Northern Ireland	Maghaberry, near Lisburn	NIPS	Not published	Public (NIPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Magilligan	Northern Ireland	Magilligan, near Limavady	NIPS	Not published	Public (NIPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Maidstone	South East	Maidstone	HMP	Category C Foreign National	Public (HMPPS)	553	£37,131	None
HMP Manchester	North West	Manchester (Strangeways)	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	572	£37,131	None
HMP Millsike	Yorkshire and the Humber	Full Sutton, near York	HMP	Not published	Private	1,158	n/a	n/a
HMP Morton Hall	East Midlands	Swinderby, near Lincoln	HMP	Category C Foreign National	Public (HMPPS)	353	£37,131	None
HMP North Sea Camp	East Midlands	Boston	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	300	£37,131	None
HMP Northumberland	North East	Acklington, near Morpeth	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Private	1,356	n/a	n/a
HMP Nottingham	East Midlands	Nottingham (Sherwood)	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	960	£37,131	None
HMP Oakwood	West Midlands	Featherstone, Wolverhampton	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Private	2,034	n/a	n/a
HMP Onley	West Midlands	near Rugby	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	742	£37,131	None
HMP Pentonville	London	Islington, London	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,205	£43,453	None
HMP Perth	Scotland	Perth	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Preston	North West	Preston	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	680	£37,131	None
HMP Ranby	East Midlands	Retford	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,003	£37,131	None
HMP Risley	North West	Warrington	HMP	Category C Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,034	£37,131	None
HMP Rye Hill	West Midlands	near Rugby	HMP	Category C Trainer	Private	1,122	n/a	n/a
HMP Send	South East	Woking	HMP	Female	Public (HMPPS)	255	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Shotts	Scotland	Shotts	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
HMP Spring Hill	South East	Grendon Underwood	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	546	£40,131	£1,500
HMP Stafford	West Midlands	Stafford	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	761	£37,131	None
HMP Standford Hill	South East	Isle of Sheppey	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	464	£40,131	£1,500
HMP Stocken	East Midlands	near Oakham	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	1,285	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Sudbury	East Midlands	near Ashbourne	HMP	Open	Public (HMPPS)	661	£37,131	None
HMP Swaleside	South East	Isle of Sheppey	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	787	£44,131	£3,500
HMP Swansea	Wales	Swansea	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	447	£37,131	None
HMP Thameside	London	Thamesmead, London	HMP	Reception	Private	1,232	n/a	n/a
HMP The Mount	East of England	Bovingdon	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	1,078	£41,131	£2,000
HMP The Verne	South West	Isle of Portland	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	645	£37,131	None
HMP Usk	Wales	Usk	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	496	£37,131	None
HMP Wakefield	Yorkshire and the Humber	Wakefield	HMP	High Security	Public (HMPPS)	648	£37,131	None
HMP Wandsworth	London	Wandsworth, London	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,478	£43,453	None
HMP Warren Hill	East of England	near Woodbridge	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	250	£37,131	None
HMP Wayland	East of England	near Thetford	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	846	£37,131	None
HMP Wealstun	Yorkshire and the Humber	near Wetherby	HMP	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	920	£37,131	None
HMP Whatton	East Midlands	Whatton, Nottinghamshire	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	805	£37,131	None
HMP Whitemoor	East of England	March	HMP	High Security	Public (HMPPS)	458	£37,131	None
HMP Winchester	South East	Winchester	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	637	£41,131	£2,000
HMP Woodhill	South East	Milton Keynes	HMP	Category B	Public (HMPPS)	586	£44,131	£3,500
HMP Wormwood Scrubs	London	Hammersmith and Fulham, London	HMP	Reception	Public (HMPPS)	1,143	£43,453	None
HMP Wymott	North West	near Leyland	HMP	Category C Trainer	Public (HMPPS)	1,144	£37,131	None
HMYOI Feltham	London	Feltham	HMYOI	Category C Trainer/Resettlement	Public (HMPPS)	553	£45,290	£2,000
HMYOI Werrington	West Midlands	Stoke-on-Trent	HMYOI	Not published	Public (HMPPS)	118	£37,131	None
HMYOI Wetherby	Yorkshire and the Humber	Wetherby	HMYOI	Not published	Public (HMPPS)	154	£37,131	None
Hydebank Wood College and Women's Prison	Northern Ireland	South Belfast	NIPS	Not published	Public (NIPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lilias Centre (Community Custody Unit)	Scotland	Glasgow (Maryhill)	SPS	Not published	Public (SPS)	n/a	n/a	n/a

Total operational capacity across England and Wales where itemised: 89,535 (sum of the figures above, counting each jointly reported pair once; the HMPPS headline totals in our guides are the official ones). Best-paid listed supplement: £3,500 a year.

How to use this directory

If you are choosing where to apply, start with the free prison finder to filter by region, category and pay, then read the pages of your shortlist. Check the prison officer jobs by region guide for how recruitment works, and market supplements explained before treating a supplement as permanent. For the highest-security sites see the Category A prisons guide. If you want to understand the labels, read prison categories explained, open prisons, women's prisons, the youth custody estate and private prisons.

Serving officers can use the same data to sanity-check an offer or a transfer: the pay calculator turns a prison's pay zone and supplement into monthly take-home, and the pay bands guide covers promotion.

Prison directory FAQs

How many prisons are there in the UK?

Our directory lists 143 establishments: 123 in England and Wales (123 GOV.UK establishment pages), 17 run by the Scottish Prison Service and 3 by the Northern Ireland Prison Service. Counts differ between official tables because some sites are reported jointly; see our guide on how many prisons there are.

Which prisons pay a market supplement to officers?

19 establishments carry a Band 3 market supplement on the HMPPS prison officer pay page (checked 3 October 2026), worth between £1,500 and £3,500 a year. They are non-pensionable, guaranteed to at least March 2027 and can be withdrawn. Each prison page shows whether one applies.

Do all prison officers get the same pay?

Within England and Wales public-sector prisons Band 3 pay depends on the zone (national, outer London or inner London), contract hours (37, 39 or 41) and pay point, plus any market supplement. Scotland, Northern Ireland and privately run prisons have separate pay arrangements.

What does the category on each prison mean?

We show the HMPPS functional group from its 2025/26 performance ratings, such as Reception, Category C Trainer or Open. That describes the prison's role; it is not the security category of each prisoner. Our categories guide explains the difference.

Where does the data come from?

GOV.UK establishment pages, the HMPPS monthly population bulletin (August 2026), HMPPS workforce statistics (June 2026), the 2025/26 prison performance ratings, the HMIP report feed, SPS and NIPS pages, and the PSPRB Twenty-Fifth Report for pay. Compiled 3 October 2026. Anything we could not verify is left blank rather than guessed.

How do I compare prisons side by side?

Use the free prison finder: filter by region, category, operator, pay zone and supplement, then tick up to three prisons to compare pay, capacity and inspection dates.