FELTHAM YOUNG OFFENDERS' INSTITUTION

'HM Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre Feltham', more commonly known as 'Feltham Young Offenders' Institution' or simply 'HMP Feltham', is a prison near Feltham town in the southwest of London, England.
The Institution was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger between 'Feltham Borstal' and the 'Ashford Remand Centre'. As of February 2004, the prison had a capacity of 761 prisoners. Unlike a minority of British prisons it is managed directly by Her Majesty's Prison Service rather than management being contracted out to a private firm.
In recent years the Institution has been repeatedly criticised in reports for having a climate of racism amongst some of its officers. The reports follow in the wake of the murder of Zahid Mubarek by his racist cellmate Robert Stewart on the day Mubarek was due to be released.
'HMP Feltham' has a notorious reputation for violent assaults (prisoner on prisoner, prisoner on officer) both inside and outside of the prison service. Proposals made to try and distance HMP Feltham from its reputation included the suggestion of renaming it to 'HMP Bedfont Lakes'. However this proposition has met little support.
It is the subject of the Hard-Fi track "Feltham Is Singing Out".

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External links and references

External links and references

★ HM Prison Service page about Feltham

★ A 1999 report on Feltham from Her Majesty's Inspectorate

★ BBC News report on the 2000 investigation into Zahid Mubarek

★ BBC News report on a 2004 investigation into the prison by the Hounslow Committee for Racial Equality Council.