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HM Prison Bullingdon

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Location
  
Arncott, Oxfordshire

Governor
  
Ian Blakeman

Opened
  
1992

Managed by
  
HM Prison Services

Phone
  
+44 1869 353100

HM Prison Bullingdon

Population
  
1114 (as of December 2008)

Website
  
Bullingdon at justice.gov.uk

Address
  
Patrick Haugh Rd, Bicester OX25 1PZ, United Kingdom

Security class
  
Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom

Similar
  
Bicester Village, Bicester Village, Bicester North, Glory Farm Primary School, John Radcliffe Hospital

HMP Bullingdon is a Category B/C men's prison, in the village of Arncott (near Bicester) in Oxfordshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Bullingdon Prison is named after Bullingdon, the ancient hundred in Oxfordshire.

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History

Opened in 1994, Bullingdon was constructed as a ‘new gallery' design prison, with its four main houseblocks divided into three-galleried units. A fifth houseblock was added in 1998 which is a two-galleried unit, and a sixth added in 2008, another two-galleried unit. The prison was highlighted as being dangerously overcrowded in 2002 by Colin Moses (chairman of the Prison Officers Association) in a speech to the TUC conference. A year later Bullingdon was embroiled in further controversy when Deputy Governor Terence McLaren was arrested for possession of cocaine and child pornography offences. A prisoner escaped from Bullingdon a month later. The prison was again highlighted as the most overcrowded in England in 2004. In 2006 Governor Phil Taylor was criticised after he banned the display of the England flag by Prison Officers for fear of upsetting foreign inmates.

Bullingdon Prison accepts Category-B prisoners from the local courts on remand as well as general Category-C prisoners. A range of work, education and training courses is offered, some of which can lead to Open University qualifications. The chaplaincy has a full-time Church of England chaplain and Imam.

A successful reading group scheme has operated in Bullingdon Prison; authors Boris Johnson and Nicci French have visited the group to join in discussions.

Notable inmates

  • Munir Hussain, a businessman who participated with others in severely beating a home invader was held for a month in Bullingdon.
  • Rolf Harris, entertainer and TV personality, found guilty in July 2014 of twelve sex crimes against minors, was imprisoned in Bullingdon instead of HM Prison Wandsworth.
  • References

    HM Prison Bullingdon Wikipedia