Originally an Isolation Hospital, Send first became a Prison in 1962 when it opened as a Junior Detention Centre. It remained as such until 1987 when it was re-classified as a category C Adult Male Training Prison.
Re-rolled in 1998 and completely rebuilt by 1999, Send currently operates as a closed Female Training Prison. It also houses a 20 bed Addictive Treatment Unit, an 80 bed Resettlement Unit and a Therapeutic Community with a capacity of 40.
Address:
HMP Send
Ripley Road
Woking
Surrey
GU23 7LJ
Tel: 01483 471000
Fax: 01483 471001
Governor: Ian Murray
Operational capacity: 282 as of 1st May 2009
Accommodation: A,B,C,E,F and J Wings are cellular accommodation, all single with integral sanitation and individual showers, with A-Wing housing the Therapeutic Community and E & F wings making up the Resettlement Unit. D Wing, the Addictive Treatment Unit is a 20 women unit with double rooms and communal showers.
Regime: Send features an Education Department running Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Admin, a Farms and Gardens work party offering Floristry NVQs, an industrial workshop and painting party run by the Works Department. In addition to this, opportunities for those on the Resettlement Unit include voluntary work, attending College courses and Work Placements in the outside community. This is subject to stringent eligibility testing and the keeping of a signed Compact agreement between Prisoners and the Resettlement Staff.
