Ford

HMP Ford is a category D Open establishment with an emphasis on resettlement.
A former Fleet Air Arm Station, it converted to an open prison in 1960.
Further buildings were added including a gate complex, chapel, education and probation. Accommodation comprises of single and two-person rooms.

Address:
Arundel
West Sussex
BN18 0BX

Tel: 01903 663000
Fax: 01903 663001

Governor: Sharon Williams

Accommodation: 2 person rooms and single room accommodation.

Operational capacity: 557 as of 5th August 2008

Reception criteria: Category D. No arson, sex offences, convictions under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 or restraining Orders. Violent offenders may be considered for a progressive move subject to a thorough risk assessment by the sending prison. Offenders against children are accepted as long as they are not on the Sex Offenders Register. Lifers are accepted on allocation by the Lifer Unit. Determinate prisoners with a maximum of 5 years to serve prior to NPD or 2 years to PED. The prisoners should have no history of abscond, ROTL failure in the last two years.

Sentence planning documents must be up to date, and initial OASys completed. There are circumstances where prisoners outside this criteria may be considered, but this must be in consultation with Ford.

Regime: An expanded induction programme is in place supported by a prisoner peer support group (FOCUS). Work opportunities include horticulture, vocational work in workshops as well as opportunities for long term prisoners to work in the community on rehabilitative and reparation work through the community services department. Education provision includes a wide range of courses that enable prisoners to gain key vocational and academic qualifications. Specialist services provide assistance for a range of job preparation and seeking activities, assistance to find accommodation, debt counselling, drug and alcohol counselling and programmes and support for all prisoners regardless of their length of sentence. Ford has a prisoner Listener group that provides confidential emotional support to other prisoners and a local PCT run healthcare facility.