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• Updated: 6 June 2023

This guide provides information about being arrested in Turkey and what conditions are like in prison there.

• Updated: 19 August 2024

What to expect if you're sent to prison - prison rules and regulations, healthcare and education, prisoner rights

• Arriving at prison

  When someone arrives at prison they have at least one interview and…

• Prisoner privileges and rights

  Prisoners who follow rules can earn privileges. This is called the…

• Healthcare in prison

  Prisoners are entitled to the same standard of healthcare and treatment as…

• Vulnerable prisoners

  Staff are trained to spot prisoners at risk of bullying, suicide or…

• Pregnancy and childcare in prison

  Women who give birth in prison can keep their baby for the first 18 months…

• Education and work in prison

  Courses are normally available to help prisoners get new skills, for…

Make a victim personal statement to the Parole Board - who can make one, how to write it, and what happens at a parole hearing

Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer

The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.

Risley is a prison for men in Warrington, Cheshire, including men convicted of a sex offence.

• Updated: 6 March 2025

Holme House is a men’s prison in Stockton on Tees, northeast England.

• Updated: 15 April 2025

• Updated: 11 November 2022

How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.

• Updated: 22 November 2023