The prison opened as a county gaol in 1847 and has served as a woman’s prison a borstal and an adult male prison before becoming a long-term male offenders aged 17 to 21 serving sentences up to life. In 1989, Aylesbury was designated as a long-term young offender institution and held the longest sentenced young adult males in the English prison system. In October 2022 the prison was designated as a Cat C training prison.
Accommodation
- A wing 68 general population
- B wing 68 general population
- C wing 66 general population
- D wing 61 general population
- E wing 81 general population
- F wing 52 general population
- G wing 48 general population & induction/first night centre