HMP Downview
Introduction
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Image: © David Kemp Taken: 8 Apr 2015
Taken from Freedown Lane. The buildings here were originally accommodation for nurses but were converted into a facility for male prisoners when HMP Downview opened in 1989. Downview became a closed prison for adult women and young offenders in 2009.