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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Official guide description: Open prison
Official guide · Checked 13 September 2026. This wording does not establish an A–D category.
Predominant function (2025/26): Open
Ministry of Justice performance classification. This describes the stated performance year, not a current A–D category or the categories of every prisoner.
Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026
Operational capacity is the capacity reported for this prison in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
15 July 2025
Strong leadership by an experienced governor and his highly capable deputy meant that Haverigg, a Cumbrian open prison holding 490 prisoners convicted of sexual offences, was one of the most impressive jails in the country. Out on a peninsular on the edge of the Irish…
1 September 2021
Situated near Millom in Cumbria, and one of the more remote establishments in the English prison system, HMP Haverigg is a sprawling former RAF station that had been a category C training prison since 1967. A prison with a troubled history and one that has…
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