Qualla: HM Prison Nottingham https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/j/hm-prison-nottingham-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: HM Prison Nottingham https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham HM Prison Nottingham: Introduction https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham/ Photo credit Jonathan Clitheroe, CC BY-SA 2.0. In January 2018, Peter Clarke, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, wrote an urgent notification letter to the Justice Secretary about a building on Perry Road in the Sherwood district of Nottingham. He said the same thing he had said in each of the two previous inspections going back several years. The prison was, in his words, fundamentally unsafe. Inspection findings, he wrote, tell a story of dramatic decline since 2010. There was irrefutable evidence that previous warnings had not been acted on. It was, he added, extraordinary that there had failed to be a more robust response. HM Prison Nottingham was at that point holding around eight hundred men.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/j/hm-prison-nottingham-wp/gcrj-hm-prison-nottingham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full HM Prison Nottingham: A Victorian Gaol Made Modern https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. The original prison opened in 1891 as the Nottingham city gaol. It was rebuilt in 1912 as a closed training establishment for adult men, a role it filled for most of the twentieth century. After 1997 it changed purpose: a category B local prison taking remand and convicted prison...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/j/hm-prison-nottingham-wp/gcrj-hm-prison-nottingham-a-victorian-gaol-made-modern.mp3 0:06 2 full HM Prison Nottingham: The Listeners https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. The prison has, throughout its modern history, run programmes that have worked. A voluntary drug-testing scheme established in 2004 was hailed as a success — participants underwent intensive therapy, with the prospect of early release for those who remained drug-free. The Samarit...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/j/hm-prison-nottingham-wp/gcrj-hm-prison-nottingham-the-listeners.mp3 0:06 3 full HM Prison Nottingham: What Three Inspections Found https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Over the autumn of 2017, five men died at HMP Nottingham within a single month. Four of them were believed to have taken their own lives. Deborah Coles of Inquest, the charity that monitors deaths in state custody, pointed out that these deaths happened within days of the men arr...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/j/hm-prison-nottingham-wp/gcrj-hm-prison-nottingham-the-people-inside.mp3 0:06 5 full HM Prison Nottingham: Sherwood's Walls https://qualla.com/hm-prison-nottingham/ Photo credit Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0. The walls themselves, seen from Perry Road or from Tring Vale to the south, are unremarkable: a brick perimeter, watchtowers, the new accommodation blocks behind. The Sherwood district that surrounds the prison is residential and quiet, north of the city centre, lined with terrac...

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