[2] For 20 years, Samuel Webster Allen was the Roman Catholic chaplain at the prison before being made the Bishop of Shrewsbury in 1897.

[3] Former Wales Rugby Union international player John Strand-Jones was the part-time Church of England chaplain from 1930 to 1934.

[8] In September 2004, Member of Parliament George Stevenson,[9] called for an enquiry into the number of suicides which had occurred at Shrewsbury Prison.

Before closure, Shrewsbury was a Category B/C prison accepting adult males from the local courts in its catchment area.

[14] The Grade II listed former prison building was sold by the Ministry of Justice to developers, the Trevor Osborne Property Group, in 2014, and was expected to be converted into homes and offices.

[15] In April 2015, it was revealed proposals included accommodation for around 200 students of the recently created University Centre Shrewsbury.

This purchase will see the prison continue to operate as an interactive tourism destination, with further development and investment planned to create a World renowned attraction.

[citation needed] The prison is mentioned in the poem "On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank", from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

[20] In 2017, the prison was used as the filming location for the Young Offenders Institute in which 15-year old Josh Thompson was sent to after being sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court to a 12 Month Detention and Training Order by the judge after the jury found him guilty of several counts of arson and hoax calls to the Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service, in the video made by Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service called "It's Too Late Now!".