HM Prison Prescoed
| Location | Usk, Monmouthshire |
|---|---|
| Security class | Adult Male/Category D |
| Capacity | 230 |
| Population | about 230 (as of May 2013) |
| Opened | 1939 |
| Managed by | HM Prison Services |
| Governor | Darren Hughes |
| Website | Prescoed at justice.gov.uk |
Coordinates: 51°41′10″N 2°56′36″W / 51.686193°N 2.943199°W
HM Prison Prescoed is a Category D men's open prison, located in Coed-y-paen, three miles from Usk in Monmouthshire, South Wales. Prescoed is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and acts as a satellite prison of the nearby HMP Usk.
Prescoed has been re-purposed multiple times since its construction by prisoner labour in 1939. From 1939 to 1964, it was an open borstal for youth. From 1964 to 1983, it was an open Borstal. The nearby HMP Usk was a Detention Centre. It was used for the next five years as an open Youth Custody Centre before, in 1988, becoming an open Young Offender Institution. By 2000, it was transformed into an adult open prison.
In July 2003, Prescoed Prison (along with HMP Usk) was listed by the Prison Service as one of the top five performing Prisons in England and Wales, the first time that prisons had been ranked in a published league table.
In 2004 Prescoed started to hold a number of convicted sex offenders who had been transferred from HMP Usk. There was considerable opposition to this from local residents, who feared that such inmates may abscond from the open jail and pose a threat to local children. There were several incidents of convicted sex offenders absconding from Prescoed. The prison no longer holds sex offenders.
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