Here's all the info. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. It's located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The Surrey prison is the first in the UK to house ...

This means that an offender who identifies as a woman but has male anatomy will generally be sent to a men's prison. By contrast, Downview is a women's prison, and its trans unit (E Wing ...

The need for the use of force at Downview Prison has doubled in a year - report The number of assaults on staff at a women's prison in Surrey has increased by 54% between 2023 and 2024 ...

Criminal justice experts brought together by the government are drawing up a new strategy to cut the number of women being sent to prison ... We’re inside HMP Downview – one of 12 female ...

There were more prisoners at Downview prison in Reigate and Banstead last year, new figures show. A penal reform charity warned prison overcrowding and a lack of resources contribute to a "failing ...

A unit housing only trans inmates will open this week at Downview prison near Sutton, south London, in a building that had previously been named after Josephine Butler, a Victorian feminist.

A previously female-only jail will hold male inmates from next spring as part of a government overhaul of the prison service. HMP Downview, in Sutton Lane near Banstead, has spent more than 12 ...

Simon Dykes faces a retrial on three charges An acting prison governor who had a sexual ... had the relationship at Downview women's jail for three years. He was convicted, at Guildford Crown ...

The number of assaults on staff at a women's prison in Surrey has increased by 54% between 2023 and 2024, a report shows. There were 48 incidents of prisoner-on-staff assaults at Downview Prison ...