North Sea Camp (HM Prison)
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| HMP North Sea Camp | |
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| Opened | 1935 |
| Management | HM Prison Service |
| Prison type | Adult Male/Category D |
| Prisoner figures | 306 (2006) |
| Location | Boston, Lincolnshire |
| Governor | Norman Warwick |
| Information | www.hmprisons.gov.uk |
HMP North Sea Camp is an open prison on the boundary between the parishes of Freiston and Fishtoft, near Boston, Lincolnshire, England.
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[edit] History & development
It opened as a Borstal in 1935, having been established by a group of Borstal Trainees who had been marched cross-country from Stafford. They set up a campsite, and immediately began work building a sea wall to protect the site from the North Sea. Once this was complete, they began reclaiming land by building a further sea wall - that land then became the prison farm. Until the sale of adjacent land in 2004, the prison had the biggest prison farm in the United Kingdom, much of which was on land reclaimed from the The Wash.
[edit] The prison today
Today, North Sea Camp is an adult male prison, holding 306 prisoners in August 2006. Activities include prison education, workshops, laundry, and a number of prisoners work outside the prison on day release. The prison also has a small terrace of self-contained houses for life sentence prisoners who are coming close to parole.
In August 2006, the BBC reported that 49 prisoners absconded in the previous twelve months, and that a total of 339 had absconded since 1996[1].
[edit] Notable prisoners
- Steve P Taylor (writer) in 1998
- Jeffrey Archer in 2001-2002
- Gary Hart (guilty of causing the Selby rail crash) in 2003
