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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: Grendon Prison and Spring Hill 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
Shared site reference: Grendon and Spring Hill
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
19 August 2022
Spring Hill was making a good recovery from the pandemic restrictions that had made the operation of this open prison in Buckinghamshire difficult for the last two years. When I visited briefly in March 2021 during our scrutiny visit of neighbouring HMP Grendon, the prisoners…
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