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10.9.3.8 Prevalence of Mental Health in Prisoners
From the Mental Health Equity Audit 2006/07 for Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire
(available from www.hullpublichealth.org), the number of prisoners with mental illness
across Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire was estimated from national prevalence
figures.
There are four prisons in Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire all holding male prisoners
only. Details are given below on the type of prison and the operational capacity 66 from
the Her Majesty‟s Prison Service website 67 .
Everthorpe is a category C training prison which opened in 1958 as a borstal. It
was converted to its present role in 1991 and now holds convicted male prisoners.
In 2005 Everthorpe underwent a significant expansion programme, and now has
operational capacity for 689 prisoners.
Wolds was opened in 1992 as a remand prison and in 1993 was re-roled to a local
category B prison holding sentenced prisoners, but Wolds is now for mid-term
category C male prisoners including second stage lifers. There is an operational
capacity of 350 prisoners. It is also a privately-run prison and as such has not
gone through the transfer of healthcare services from the Home Office to the
Department of Health.
Hull is a Victorian Prison with extensive security work in 1969 and expansion in
2002 to become a male local prison/remand centre with an operational capacity of
1,000 and holds remand, sentenced and convicted adult males (except Category
A) and young offenders.
Full Sutton in East Riding of Yorkshire is a modern, purpose-build, maximum
security prison for men in category A and category B with an operational capacity
of 608 prisoners. The prison's primary function is to hold, in conditions of high
security, some of the most difficult and dangerous criminals in the country.
A review of 23,000 prisoners from 62 surveys from 12 countries found that prisoners
were several times more likely to have psychosis and major depression, and about ten
times more likely to have antisocial personality disorder than the general population
(Fazel and Danesh, 2002). The prevalence of psychotic illness, major depression and
personality disorder is estimated to be 3.7% and 4.0% for men and women respectively
for psychotic illnesses, 10% and 12% for men and women respectively for major
depression, and 65% and 52% for men and women respectively for personality disorder
for the 18,530 men and 4,260 women who participated in the Fazel‟s research. Almost
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Operational capacity (OC) is the maximum safe capacity of the prison population which is higher than
the certified normal accommodation (CNA).
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http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/ It is not known if the capacity figures and other information from
the website are entirely up-to-date.
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