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    HM Prison Portland is a male Adult/Young Offenders Institution in the village of The Grove on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England. It is operated...
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    HM Prison The Verne is a Category C men's prison located within the historic Verne Citadel on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. Operated by His...
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    the time it was also Portland's third prison, alongside HM Prison The Verne and HM Prison Portland. After two years of use, HM Prison Weare was given a positive...
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    HM Prison Ford (informally known as Ford Open Prison) is a Category D men's prison, located at Ford, in West Sussex, England, near Arundel and Littlehampton...
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  • HM Prison Albany is a Category B men's prison, situated on the outskirts of Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's...
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  • mainland Weymouth and Portland, a local government district of Dorset, including the Isle of Portland HM Prison Portland, a prison for male young offenders...
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    Isle of Portland in Dorset. The village is found close to the larger village Easton, and is most notable for containing the HM Prison Portland, including...
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  • October 2009. "Portland". HM Prison Service. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009. "Prescoed". HM Prison Service. Retrieved...
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    Grove clifftop. This was the original prison (HM Prison Portland) built for convicts who quarried stone for the Portland Breakwaters from 1848. For a few years...
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    death in 1856), and John Coode as resident engineer. During 1848, HM Prison Portland was established to provide convict labour to quarry the stone needed...
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  • is an Irish prison fugitive who holds the record for the longest escape from custody, having escaped HM Prison The Verne, Isle of Portland, Dorset in December...
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    His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part...
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    Portland. The pans sit directly below the Young Offenders Institution HM Prison Portland, and are found close to various old historic relics such as the East...
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    Portland Grove Prison Museum, a museum based on the active HM Prison Portland "Weymouth and Portland Borough Council". Weymouth.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 February...
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    Folly Pier Waterworks (category Isle of Portland)
    waterworks on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It was located at East Weares, the east side of Portland, below HM Prison Portland, which it supplied water...
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    Governor's Community Garden (category Isle of Portland)
    of Portland, Dorset, England. It is found within The Grove village, opposite the site of HM Prison Portland. Following the opening of the prison in 1848...
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    for a cost of £8,000 and using convict labour from the adjacent HM Prison Portland. It was consecrated in August 1872 and used by residents of the Grove...
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    Grove Lime Kiln (category Isle of Portland)
    kiln on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located close to HM Prison Portland and The Grove village. Owned by the prison service, the lime kiln...
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    Key4Life (category Prison charities based in the United Kingdom)
    have been through the Key4Life programme at HM Prison Ashfield, HM Prison Isis, HM Prison Portland, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs and Somerset Preventative...
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    Verne Citadel (category Isle of Portland)
    was built to defend. It later became HM Prison The Verne in 1949. The citadel was built between 1857–81, as Portland Harbour's main defensive fortification...
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    until the end of the 20th century, including Portland's three prisons - HM Prison The Verne, HM Prison Weare, and the Young Offender's Institution. The...
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    close seven prisons: HM Prison Bullwood Hall in Essex, HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, HM Prison Canterbury in Kent, HM Prison Gloucester in...
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    Erlestoke, HM Prison The Verne, HM Prison Bristol, HM Prison Channings Wood, HM Prison Dartmoor, HM Prison Eastwood Park, HM Prison Exeter, HM Prison Leyhill...
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    Museums in Dorset. "Portland dockside D-Day museum opens - BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018. "Grove Prison Museum". Portland History. Retrieved...
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  • Majesty's Youth Offenders Institution if the reigning monarch is female) (or HM YOI) are youth detention centres for offenders between ages 15 to 21 in the...
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  • once owned by the Anwyl of Tywyn Family of Gwynedd, Wales Parc (HM Prison), a prison in South Wales Arctic Village Airport (ICAO: PARC), an airport in...
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    Borstal (category Prisons in India)
    a detention centre is known as a borstal school. Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform young offenders. The word originated...
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    conference. On 9 April 1972 all internees were moved to Long Kesh prison (HM Prison Maze). The presence of the ship in Belfast Harbour drew attention...
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  • The Verne Citadel, a citadel on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England The Verne (HM Prison), a prison on the citadel Verne, Doubs, a commune of the...
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    Broadcroft Quarry (category Isle of Portland)
    stone quarry and part butterfly nature reserve located on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is located towards the eastern side of the island...
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