HM Prison Northeye

H.M. Prison Northeye was a prison located at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England which was in operation from 1969 to 1992.

The prison was formerly the site of a Royal Air Force Mobile Radio Unit which housed reserve equipment for the Chain Home radar station at Pevensey. It subsequently became a radar station itself, but was decommissioned in 1964. It was subsequently opened as a Category C training prison in January 1969.[1]

Prison disturbances

It was one of the prisons which participated in the prison strike organised by Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners in 1972.[2]

In 1986 40% of the prison was destroyed when 60 of the 450 inmates rioted in response to being locked in their cells for 23 hours a day during a Prison Officers overtime ban.[3]

References

"Detailed Result: HMP NORTHEYE". Pastscape. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
Fitzgerald, Mike (1976). Prisoners in revolt: the origin and development of Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP), the British Prisoners Union. Leicester: University of Leicester.
"Prisoners Riot at Jails In Britain and 50 Escape". The New York Times. 1 May 1986. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

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[1] "Detailed Result: HMP NORTHEYE". Pastscape. Retrieved 2017-06-20.

[Prisoners_in_Revolt-2] Fitzgerald, Mike (1976). Prisoners in revolt: the origin and development of Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP), the British Prisoners Union. Leicester: University of Leicester.

[NYT-3] "Prisoners Riot at Jails In Britain and 50 Escape". The New York Times. 1 May 1986. Retrieved 20 June 2017.