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HM Prison Birmingham (known locally as Winson Green Prison) is a Category B/C men's prison, located in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England. The prison was formerly operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. It is now managed by G4S . ==History== Birmingham is a Victorian prison, built in 1849. Numerous judicial executions by hanging took place at the prison until the abolition of capital punishment in the UK. A total of 35 executions took place at Birmingham prison during the 20th century.〔http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/places.html〕 The last person ever to be hanged at the prison was a 20-year-old Jamaican named Oswald Augustus Grey. He was executed on 20 November 1962 after being convicted of the shooting death of newsagent Thomas Bates during the course of a robbery in Lee Bank Road on 3 June 1962.〔()〕〔http://www.inlogov.bham.ac.uk/staff/pdfs/BirminghamPost_CapitalPunishment.pdf〕 Christopher Simcox, a double-murderer, was scheduled for execution at Birmingham prison on Tuesday, 17 March 1964, but was reprieved. In 1995, Birmingham was criticised by its own Board of Visitors for being soft on prisoners. This arose after allegations that one inmate had gone on two weeks' holiday to Minorca, while being released for weekend leave. In January 1999 an inspection report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons attacked conditions at Birmingham, describing the health centre in the jail as the "untidiest and dirtiest" inspectors had ever come across. The report also criticised the prison for its lack of a sex offender treatment programme, the lack of employment and education opportunities, and the inadequate bathing arrangements where some inmates were only being allowed a full wash three times a week.〔 In March 2001 the Chief Inspector declared that conditions had worsened in Birmingham Prison where around 11% of inmates had claimed to have been assaulted by prison officers. One particular incident involved a mentally-disturbed prisoner who had been denied a wash or change of clothes for weeks because staff thought he was faking his illness. In 2002 the prison was expanded as a result of a multimillion-pound investment programme by the Prison Service. 450 additional prisoner places were added together with new workshops, educational facilities, a new healthcare centre and gym as well as extensions and improvements to existing facilities. Two years later, a report from the Chief Inspector found that conditions at Birmingham had substantially improved, stating that the prison was a place where "positive attitudes are firmly embedded". In November 2007 the Independent Monitoring Board warned in a report that overcrowding at Birmingham was putting prisoners and staff at risk. The report stated that if overcrowding was not tackled, then there was a potential for unrest. Two years later, the Board issued another report that criticised levels of overcrowding at Birmingham Prison. The report also noted that inmates from the jail were being transferred to prisons further north, to accommodate increased prisoner levels from the South-East of England. Birmingham became the first publicly built, owned and operated prison in the UK to be transferred to the private sector. G4S formally took over the day-to-day running of the prison in October 2011. The following people were executed in Birmingham Prison between 1885 and 1962. Henry Kimberley for the murder of Emma Palmer, 17 March 1885 George Daniels and Harry Jones for the murders of Emma Hastings and Florence Harris, a child, 28 August 1888 Frederick Davies for the murder of his wife, 26 August 1890 Frederick Fenton for the murder of Florence Elborough, 4 April 1894 Frank Taylor for the murder of Mary Lewis 18 August 1896 (aged 10) John Joyce for the murder of John Nugent 20 August 1901 Charles Samuel Dyer for the murder of Martha Eliza Simpson (his girlfriend) 5 April 1904 Samuel Holden for the murder of Susan Humphries (his girlfriend)16 August 1904 Frank Greening for the murder of Elizabeth Ellen Hearne (his girlfriend)13 August 1913 William Butler for the murder of Florence Beatrice Butler 16 August 1916 Henry Gaskin for the murder of Elizabeth Gaskin (his wife) 8 August 1919 Samuel Westwood for the murder of Lydia Westwood (his wife)30 December 1920 Edward O'Connor for the murder of Thomas O'Connor (his son) 22 December 1921 William Rider for the murder of Rosilla Patience Barton (his bigamous wife)19 December 1922 John Fisher for the murder of Ada Taylor (his girlfriend) 5 January 1926 George Sharples for the murder of Milly Crabtree, 13 April 1926 James Power for the murder of Olive Gordon Turner, 31 January 1928 Victor Betts for the murder of William Thomas Andrews, 3 January 1931 Jeremiah Hanbury for the murder of Jessie Payne (his girlfriend)2 February 1933 Stanley Hobday for the murder of Charles William Fox, 29 December 1933 Dorothea Waddingham (f) for the murders of Louisa Baguley, Ada Baguley, 16 April 1936 Peter Barnes and James Richards for the murders of Elsie Ansell, Gwilym Rowland, John Arnott, James Clay & Rex Gentle, 7 February 1940 Eli Richards for the murder of Jane Turner 19 September 1941 Arthur Peach for the murder of Kitty Lyon 30 January 1942 Harold Merry for the murder of Joyce Dixon (his girlfriend) 10 September 1942 William Quayle for the murder of Vera Clarke 3 August 1943 James Farrell for the murder of Joan Marney 29 March 1949 Piotr Maksimowski for the murder of Dilys Campbell (his girlfriend) 29 March 1950 William Watkins for the murder of an unnamed son 3 April 1951 Horace Carter for the murder of Sheila Attwood 1 January 1952 Frederick Cross for the murder of Donald Lainton 26 July 1955 Corbett Roberts for the murder of Doris Roberts (his wife) 2 August 1955 Ernest Harding for the murder of Evelyn Higgins 9 August 1955 Dennis Howard for the murder of David Keasey 4 December 1957 Matthew Kavanagh for the murder of Isaiah Dixon 12 August 1958 Oswald Grey for the murder of Thomas Bates 20 November 1962 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HM Prison Birmingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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