HMP Bronzefield is an adult and young offender female prison located on the outskirts of Ashford in Surrey, England.

The remand centre was closed down in 1988, but was briefly reopened due to overcrowding issues before its final closure in 1990, after which the buildings were demolished.

Since its opening, Bronzefield has gained media coverage for its prisoners, its supposedly lax regime, high staff turnover and continued extremely poor industrial relations.

Bronzefield holds a wide range of female offenders, including remand, sentenced and restricted status women.

[citation needed] Bronzefield offers full-time education courses including Art, ESOL and Information Technology.

Expert medical witnesses told a coroner's inquest that if Chin’s condition had been monitored and dealt with satisfactorily, her vomiting would have reduced.

[9][10] Deborah Coles of INQUEST maintained the Minister of Justice and Sodexo should be held accountable for not acting on repeated warnings about health care not being safe.

"The case raises serious questions about how the woman came to be unsupervised and without medical support during her labour and birth, and about the conditions at the privately run prison".

There are questions over how the woman had no medical help during birth, and the case drew attention to what is done generally for pregnant women in prison.

Deborah Coles of INQUEST said, "There must be the most robust scrutiny of how this tragic death was able to happen and involve the relevant independent expertise on maternity care.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Sue McAllister said: "Ms A gave birth alone in her cell overnight without medical assistance.