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Prisoners: E-mail

Answer

There are currently 119 prisons using the services of Emailaprisoner.com and these are spread widely across the prison estate—Annex A shows a full list of the participating prisons.The system does not allow prisoners or their correspondents to directly exchange e-mails, it is merely an alternative way for a prisoner's family or friends to send an 'electronic' letter (e-mail) to the prison as opposed to the normal postal service. The 'e-mail letter' is printed by staff and then passed to the prisoner and therefore monitored in the same way as postal correspondence.It is not possible to provide an estimate of the number of contacts through the scheme each prisoner has had in the last three years as such information is not held centrally. To provide such an estimate would require the collection of data from each prison and this could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.Annex AEmailaprisoner.com is operating in the following establishments:"Altcourse""Ashfield""Askham Grange""Bedford""Birmingham""Blantyre House""Blundeston""Brinsford""Bristol""Bronzefield""Buckley Hall""Bullingdon""Bullwood Hall""Bure""Canterbury""Chelmsford""Coldingley""Dartmoor""Deerbolt""Doncaster""Dorchester""Dovegate""Dover""Downview""Drake Hall""Durham""East Sutton Park""Eastwood Park""Erlestoke""Everthorpe""Exeter""Featherstone""Feltham""Ford""Foston Hall""Frankland""Full Sutton""Garth""Gartree""Glen Parva""Grendon""Guys Marsh""Hatfield""Haverigg""Hewell""Highpoint""Hindley""Holloway Hull""Huntercombe""Isis""Isle of Wight Cluster (Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst)""Kennet""Kingston""Kirkham""Kirklevington Grange""Lancaster Farms""Leeds""Leicester""Lewes""Leyhill""Lincoln""Lindholme""Littlehey""Liverpool""Long Lartin""Low Newton""Lowdham Grange""Maidstone""Manchester""Moorland""Morton Hall""New Hall""North Sea Camp""Northallerton""Northumberland""Nottingham""Onley""Parc""Pentonville""Peterborough""Portland""Prescoed""Preston""Ranby""Reading""Risley""Rochester""Rye Hill""Send""Sheppey Cluster (Elmley and Stanford Hill)""Shepton Mallet""Shrewsbury""Spring Hill""Stafford""Stocken""Stoke Heath""Styal""Sudbury""Swansea""The Mount""Thorn Cross""Usk""Verne""Wandsworth""Warren Hill""Wayland""Wealstun""Wellingborough""Wetherby""Whatton""Whitemoor""Winchester""Wolds""Woodhill""Wormwood Scrubs""Wymott"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

105803; 543 c1164-7W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Email Prisoners Prisons

Link

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