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    HM Prison Belfast, also known as Crumlin Road Gaol, is a former prison situated on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since 1996 it is...
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    (moved to HM Prison Frankland) Richard Huckle (later moved to HM Prison Full Sutton, where he was murdered) Ian Huntley (moved to HM Prison Frankland...
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    HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used...
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    for selected prisoners nearing the end of their sentences; Officially HM Prison Hydebank Wood, this is a medium-to-low-security establishment accommodating...
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  • combustion engine having the cylinders in an H pattern Maze (HM Prison), Belfast, where the prison blocks were built to a uniform H-shaped plan Anti H-Block...
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    54°30′50″N 6°11′10″W / 54.514°N 6.186°W / 54.514; -6.186 HM Prison Maghaberry is a high security prison near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, which opened in 1986...
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  • 927°W / 54.542; -5.927 HM Prison Hydebank Wood, also known as Hydebank Wood College and Women's Prison, is a women's prison and young offender's centre...
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    HM Prison Morton Hall is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Morton Hall (near Lincoln) in Lincolnshire, England. The centre is operated...
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  • downgraded to category B. HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs is an example of a Category B prison. They are the equivalent of a medium security prison in the United States...
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    2014. Retrieved 8 April 2018. "Inspection of HM Prison Shepton Mallet" (PDF). HM Inspectorate of Prisons. Department of Justice. Archived (PDF) from the...
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    Museums have been created from many former jails and prisons. Some old jails converted into museums are listed under the original name of the jail, especially...
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    April 1972 all internees were moved to Long Kesh prison (HM Prison Maze). The presence of the ship in Belfast Harbour drew attention to the constitutional...
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  • Instructor to the War Office. Captain Thomas Moore Stuart, Governor, HM Prison, Belfast. Frank Norman Stubbs, lately Chief Technical Assistant, Ministry of...
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  • The league was almost exclusively made up of republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze (known also as "Long Kesh") and their families; In total the membership...
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  • 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Dunmurry (category The Troubles in Belfast)
    1976, Sands was sentenced in 1977, arriving in HM Prison Maze late September, he refused to wear prison uniform. Both Sands and McDonnell went on to hunger...
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  • Maze Prison escape (known to Irish republicans as the Great Escape) took place on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. HM Prison Maze...
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  • the only female inmate at HM Prison Maghaberry near Lisburn from May 2011 until she was moved to the hospital wing of HM Prison Hydebank Wood in February...
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  • Mitchell, forcing O'Neill to stand down in his favour. Mitchell was in HM Prison Belfast serving a sentence of ten years' imprisonment after he was caught...
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  • without trial at HM Prison Maze, HM Prison Magilligan and onboard HMS Maidstone. The song was recorded by the Barleycorn in Belfast (produced by Billy...
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  • John Graham (Irish republican) (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
    Graham was arrested in September 1942 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. While in HM Prison Crumlin Road he (and 21 other Irish Republicans) went on a "strip...
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    been built at urban interface areas in Belfast and elsewhere. The majority of peace walls are located in Belfast, but they also exist in other regions...
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  • Carlo Gébler (category Alumni of Queen's University Belfast)
    the Maze Prison as a creative writing tutor. From 1997 to 2015 he was writer in residence at HM Prison Maghaberry. He has described his prison teaching...
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  • Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture...
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  • Research (Caswell) Ltd. The Reverend William James Vance, Prison Chaplain, HM Prison, Belfast. Doreen Vause, Headteacher, Cedars County Infant School,...
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    Bobby Storey (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
    June 2020) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prior to an 18-year conviction for possessing a rifle...
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  • three months' imprisonment on 12 April 1921. He served his sentence at HM Prison Manchester and was released on 27 June. Christie was then convicted on...
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    an enthusiastic reception. On 27 October 1980, republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze began a hunger strike. One hundred and forty-eight prisoners volunteered...
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  • Belfast. (Holywood.) John Ewan MacDonell, Workshop Superintendent III, Post Office Garage, Oban, Argyll. John MacKenzie, Foreman of Works, HM Prison,...
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    Belfast West is a parliamentary constituency (seat) in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The current MP is Paul Maskey of Sinn Fein. In 2017...
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  • Bridlington (Beverley, Yorkshire) David Holmes, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Prison, Belfast. Percy Francis Hope, Warden, Washington Residential Training Centre...
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