HM Prison Lancaster

[2] Judge Stephen Tumim, in his capacity as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons conducted an unannounced short inspection, the report of which was published in 1991.

[3] Terence Bond of the Probation service based at HM Prison Lancaster received the MBE in the 2008 new Year Honours list.

[4] When closure was announced 30 Members of Parliament signed an Early Day Motion regretting the decision and pointing out that the prison ranked second in national statistics for the resettlement of offenders, which in turn had a significant impact on the crime rate in North East England.

[5] Final closure of the prison occurred on 8 February 2012, at which time the associated Independent Monitoring Board was also closed.

There was additionally a Lancashire Probation Trust notice payment of £42k.