HMP Garth opened in 1988. It is a category B male establishment, part of the long-term and high-security estate directorate, holding predominantly convicted adults serving more than four years and those serving indeterminate sentences. In addition to the mainstream residential accommodation, the prison has several specialist units: Beacon Unit, offering the offender personality disorder pathway service; Building Hope Unit, a psychologically informed therapeutic environment; a drug recovery unit; and a residential support unit.
Accommodation
- A wing – 133 bed, residential unit
- B wing – 133 bed residential support unit, The Beacon Unit and The Building Hope Unit
- C wing –133 bed residential unit
- D wing – 133 bed residential unit
- E wing – 118 bed residential unit and substance misuse therapeutic community
- F wing – 97 bed vulnerable prisoner unit
- G wing – 97 bed vulnerable prisoner unit
- Segregation unit