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HM Prison Birmingham

HM Prison Birmingham is a Category B men's prison in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England, operated by HM Prison and Probation Service.[2][3][4]

Location

Winson Green, Birmingham, West Midlands

52°29′35.54″N 1°56′14.05″W / 52.4932056°N 1.9372361°W / 52.4932056; -1.9372361

Operational

Adult Male/Category B & C

1,028 (November 2018)[1]

1849

Paul Newton

The prison was featured in an episode of in 2000 which shows the character Nick Cotton being released from the prison.

EastEnders

The prison is mentioned in the book in which it and the city of Birmingham are destroyed by a Soviet nuclear warhead.

The Third World War: The Untold Story

The prison is featured in the 2009 grime film .

1 Day

(1899 – 16 April 1936) was an English nursing home matron who was convicted of murder.

Dorothea Nancy Waddingham

aka Gordon Lonsdale, Soviet spy, subsequently involved in a spy swap[44]

Konon Molody

imprisoned for his part in the Great Train Robbery, he escaped the prison on 12 August 1964. He was recaptured on 24 January 1968 in Canada.[5]

Charlie Wilson

later frontman of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, served six weeks after he was arrested for breaking and entering and theft in 1966.[45]

Ozzy Osbourne

serial killer who arrived on remand in May 1994. He committed suicide in his cell on 1 January 1995, before he could be brought to trial.[46]

Fred West

former West Bromwich Albion striker, spent the early part of his six-year jail term for dangerous driving at the prison in 2004.

Lee Hughes

Irish revolutionary spent a short term at this prison after the Easter rising in 1916.

Michael Collins

television presenter[47]

Ashley Blake

The

Birmingham Six

MIST, rapper, spent time serving his sentence after a multi-car police chase.

[48]

Edith Marian Begbie, Bertha Ryland, Florence Macfarlane, Constance Bryer and Hilda Burkitt, suffragettes who were force-fed in prison.[49][50]

Olive Wharry

Birmingham City F.C. striker, of Watford F.C. at the time. He was convicted of affray in 2012 and was subsequently sentenced to ten months.

Troy Deeney

Notable former inmates:


Notable current inmates:

Controversies surrounding G4S

Ministry of Justice pages on HMP Birmingham

G4S pages on HMP Birmingham

HMP Birmingham - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports