HMP Long Lartin is a dispersal establishment for sentenced and remand category A and sentenced category B male prisoners who require high security conditions. It is part of the high security prisons group and connected to West Midland Region. It has a capacity of 609 and the #1 governor is Steve Cross, who has been in charge since July 2019.
Long Lartin, which occupies the site of a former war department ordnance depot, was built in the 1960s and opened as a prison in 1971. Although originally opened as a category C prison, it was upgraded to provide dispersal level security in 1973. Further improvements in security were made between 1995 and 1997, and an additional wing, Perrie, was opened in June 1999. In 2009 a new purpose built unit, Atherton, replaced older style wings, increasing the capacity of the prison.
Accommodation
- A – capacity for 77 prisoners in cells without in-cell sanitation but closed for a night sanitation upgrade.
- B – capacity for 77 vulnerable prisoners in cells without in-cell sanitation.
- C – capacity for 76 vulnerable prisoners in cells without in-cell sanitation.
- D – capacity for 77 prisoners in cells without in-cell sanitation.
- E – modern open plan unit for 95 prisoners.
- F – modern open plan unit for 89 prisoners.
- P – Perrie Blue – an incentivised substance-free living unit for 42.
- Q – Perrie Red – a modern unit for 75.
- Health care inpatient unit – for 7 prisoners, including one cell that can provide end-of-life care.
- PIPE unit – capacity for 18 prisoners.