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Wandsworth Prison

Volume 457: debated on Monday 19 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recreational facilities are available to prisoners at HMP Wandsworth. (120393)

The recreational facilities available include a variety of workshops and educational facilities and a library for prisoners to use.

There is a pool table and a table tennis table on all the residential units, televisions in all cells, for which prisoners pay £1 a week and all prisoners have access to exercise yards each day. There are gyms and fitness suites in the prison, and some units also have access to exercise equipment. Prisoners on the enhanced level of incentives and earned privileges can have access to DVDs and games consoles. There are also reading clubs, film clubs and a radio station.