Prison, Welford Road, Leicester
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Prison, Welford Road, Leicester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Aug 2011
Suitably forbidding, although its towers, turrets and castellated profile bring to mind a castle. Built 1825-28 by William Parsons, County Surveyor. The gatehouse and adjoining wall seen here are grade II listed. Nowadays it's a local prison for adult males, both sentenced and on remand from local courts. A "local prison is a type of prison where a person is detained before a trial or directly after a conviction." According to a report by the Prison Reform Trust, published the day before submission of this photo, the prison, designed to hold 200 inmates, currently holds 342, making it the fourth most overcrowded prison in England and Wales.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.627612
Longitude
-1.132591