HM Prison Glen Parva

HM Prison Glen Parva is a male juvenile's prison and Young Offenders Institution, located in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, England. Glen Parva is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.HistoryGlen Parva was constructed on the site of the former Glen Parva Barracks in the early 1970s as a borstal and has always held young offenders. Since its opening in 1974 the establishment has seen considerable expansion and change and now serves a catchment area of over 100 courts, holding a mixture of sentenced, unsentenced, and remand prisoners.In 1997, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons walked out of an inspection at Glen Parva because conditions were so bad. After a subsequent inspection a year later, the report stated that there was "hope for the future" for the prison but added that a lot of work still needed to be done, and recommended that some staff should be moved because of their attitude towards inmates.In July 2002, four inmates from Glen Parva escaped whilst on a two-day camping trip in the Peak District. Two were caught soon after, but two inmates managed to evade police capture for some time.In its annual report in 2003, the Board of Visitors revealed two serious cases of unrest at Glen Parva Prison. On one occasion, 16 inmates barricaded themselves inside a building. The report blamed an unprecedented rise in the number of inmates at the prison, and also the fact that some inmates were bored and unsettled, finding themselves hundreds of miles from home.

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