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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
Shared figures: Usk Prison and Prescoed Prison. The Ministry of Justice reports these establishments together. These figures cover the whole shared unit and are not a separate count for this prison.
Operational capacity is the combined capacity reported for this shared unit in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
12 August 2025
Usk, a small traditional looking prison dating from the 19th century, is a category C resettlement prison in Monmouthshire for up to 276 adult men. Under the same operational management, but located a few miles away, is Prescoed, a category D open prison for up…
1 October 2021
Usk and Prescoed, as the names suggest, are two distinct prisons, although managed as a single entity. Usk is a small establishment built in a traditional 19th century style which held 220 category C prisoners, almost all of whom were serving sentences for sexual offences.…
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