Life Behind Bars
The following provides some background information about HMP La Moye Young Offenders' Institution.
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Jersey prison mission statement of purpose.
HMP La Moye will provide a healthy, safe, secure and stimulating environment for all who live and work here. Prisoners will be encouraged to address their offending behaviour and to become involved in education and work related training, which will enable them to live a law abiding and purposeful life in custody. Supportive relationships with families will be facilitated in order to maintain the positive links that will ensure a successful return to the community. In partnership with other agencies the prison will provide effective ways to reduce its resultant social and economic costs.
HMP La Moye was built in the early 1970s and officially opened on the 27 February 1975 by Mrs Ann Baal, in memory of her late husband Keith Alfred Baal, the connetable de St Helier and president of the prison board from 1957 - 1973.
HMP La Moye is a mixed prison with separate housing blocks for adult male, female, and young offenders. All these prisoners are kept apart at all times. If you are aged between 15 yr old and 21 yr old and given a custodial sentence by the courts then the young offenders institute at La Moye will become your new home for that particular period of time. All female young offenders are housed on the female wing. All young offenders of school age (15 - 16) will be given up to 20 hours of compulsory education per week.
The young offenders institution consist of 22 cells, 5 are double and 17 single, 1 gym/sports hall, 1 tv room, 1 enhanced sitting room/tv room and 2 small dinning rooms. The exercise area in front of the housing block is also used for outdoor activities such as football etc. A library and education centre (LEC) is also located in this area. Besides it having a fairly comprehensive library it also as a classroom / computer skills room.
HMP La Moye operates an incentive and earned privileges scheme (IEP)
- Basic level
- Standard level
- Enhanced level
All people coming in to prison start off on standard level. Staff constantly monitor prisoners behaviour, attitudes, participation in activities, punctuality, co-operation, cleanliness and conformity with prison rules and regimes over a set period of time, which on the young offenders institute is 12 weeks. If a prisoners reports are all favourable then he/she will be upgraded to enhanced status. If his/her reports are highlighting negative attitudes and performance then they could find themselves down graded to basic level.
Your daily programme while on the young offenders is roughly as follows:
07.40 - Unlock
08.10 - Breakfast
08.45 - Work (all non workers secured in cell)
10.30 - Exercise
11.40 - Lunch
12.15 - Lock up (all)
13.15 - Unlock
13.30 - Work (all non workers secured in cell)
15.30 - Exercise
16.30 - Evening meal
17.30 - Lock up (all)
18.00 - Recreation
20.30 - Final lock up (all)
All convicted 15 and 16 year old prisoners are entitled to two half hour visits per week with family and friends (no more than two visitors in any one visit). All convicted prisoners over the age of 16 are entitled to one half hour visit per week. Remand prisoners are entitled to a 15 minute visit everyday Monday - Saturday. Any person coming up to the prison to visit family or friends must bring photographic identification with them. All visitors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a person who is 18 or older.
