Surrey Mirror published Women prisoners return to Banstead's HMP Downview

WOMEN prisoners have returned to Banstead.HMP Downview, in Sutton Lane, has been closed since April 2013, when its 279 inmates were transferred to other female prisons across the country – including HMP Holloway in north London.But on Tuesday, the cells began filling up once more. Inmates are being transferred from infamous Holloway, the UK's first female-only jail, which is due to close.When it shut three years ago, Downview was intended to reopen as a male prison – and money was...

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