HMP Shepton Mallet

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Britain Plans to Shutter Older Prisons Possibly in Favor of 2,000-person ‘Super Prison’

Among those prisons scheduled to be closed is HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset, the UK’s oldest operating prison. Also known as Cornhill, Shepton Mallet began operating in 1625 after an Act of King James I requiring every county to have a house to keep criminals. The prison was described as having extremely poor sanitation in […]

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