When you come into prison you may have brought a limited amount of your own clothing with you, but you’ll probably want more before long. There are strict limits on the type and number of items you can have, set out on a facilities list you can get from the office on your wing. There’s supposedly a nationally agreed baseline, but individual prisons set their own local rules on top of it. The national list limits things like the number of pairs of shoes (including trainers) and outer tops you can hold, and excludes anything that could be considered offensive – no football or rugby shirts, for instance. The overall limits are set out in the Prisoners’ Property Policy Framework (which replaced the old PSI 30/2013), but each prison decides what it allows from the list, so check the page for your specific prison for the latest details. The rules generally only let clothing be brought in on one occasion, though some prisons take a more relaxed approach to this, particularly during the first few weeks of your sentence.
