HM Prison Ford

HM Prison Ford (informally known as Ford Open Prison) is a Category D men's prison, located at Ford, in West Sussex, England, near Arundel and Littlehampton. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

HMP Ford
HMP Ford Gatelodge
LocationFord, West Sussex
Security classAdult Male/Category D
Capacity521
Opened1960
Managed byHM Prison Services
GovernorGraham Spencer
WebsiteFord at justice.gov.uk

Air Force and Navy use

The site was initially RAF Ford before changing into Royal Naval Air Station Ford (RNAS Ford/HMS Peregrine) a Fleet Air Arm station.

The Westland Wyvern went into service first here in the early 1950s with 813 Naval Air Squadron.

The following units were here at some point:[1]

Naval units
Units

Prison recent history

The prison has been criticised for its lax security – especially after 70 people, including three murderers serving the last three years of their sentences, absconded in 2006 alone.[2]

In March 2009, the prison's own Independent Monitoring Board issued a report stating that an outdated CCTV security system and a staffing shortage were contributing to burglars breaking into the jail to steal equipment from workshops. The report also found that drugs, alcohol and mobile phones were being smuggled into the prison for inmates.[3] Two months later, an inspection report from His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons found that inmates were leaving the prison complex at night to acquire alcohol. The report also stated that the prison was underperforming in preparing inmates for resettlement on release.[4] In October 2009, an investigation was launched after it emerged that a prisoner at Ford had been able to remove documents from a disused office in the prison complex.[5]

In July 2010, managers of Ford Prison had to apologise after Muslim prisoners at the jail were served burgers containing pork. 20 Muslim inmates were served the non-halal food before they noticed that the packaging for the burgers listed pork as an ingredient.[6]

Notable former inmates

References
  1. "Ford (Yapton)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  2. "70 flee from open prison in year". ICEaling. co.uk. 26 November 2008. Archived from the original on 23 November 2006. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  3. "Thieves target prison workshops". BBC News. 12 March 2009.
  4. Casciani, Dominic (6 May 2009). "Alcohol smuggling at open jail". BBC News.
  5. "Prisoner removes jail documents". BBC News. 15 October 2009.
  6. "Prison apologises to Muslim inmates given pork in error". BBC News. 28 July 2010.
  7. "Filmmaker Chris Atkins talks about the UK film tax fraud that saw him sentenced to five years in prison".
  8. "Andrew Cunningham". Daily Telegraph. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  9. Hardy, Jack (24 March 2017). "All the aliases used by the Westminster attacker". The Independent. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  10. "Ronson's risk". The Independent. Retrieved 11 June 2018.

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