History
“HM Prison Glen Parva was an adult maleprison and Young Offenders Institution, located in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, England. Glen Parva was operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service.
The prison closed in June 2017, following an announcement at the end of 2016 that it would be replaced with a newly built category C adult prison. It will be completely demolished and redeveloped with a new built prison on the site. It turned to an adult and young offenders institution in July 2011.
Glen Parva was constructed on the site of the former Glen Parva Barracks in the early 1970s as a borstal and has always held young offenders. Since its opening in 1974 the establishment has seen considerable expansion and change and now serves a catchment area of over 100 courts, holding a mixture of sentenced, unsentenced, and remand prisoners.
In 1997, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons walked out of an inspection at Glen Parva because conditions were so bad. After a subsequent inspection a year later, the report stated that there was “hope for the future” for the prison but added that a lot of work still needed to be done, and recommended that some staff should be moved because of their attitude towards inmates.”
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Glen_Parva
