The remand centre library was run by Reading Borough Libraries. There were two education departments at the prison, one run by the Prison service and one by Milton Keynes College. There was also a residential unit (Kennet wing) of single occupancy cells for low-security ' open' prisoners. In 1992 it became a Remand Centre and Young Offenders Institution, holding prisoners between the ages of 18 and 21 years.Īccommodation at the prison consisted of a mixture of single and double occupancy cells, on three wings. The building was designated as Grade II listed in 1978. In 1973 Reading was re-designated as a local prison, and around that time its old castle wall was removed. In 1969 the wing where the Irish had been held was demolished. Most of those interned during the First World War were of German origin but there were also Latin Americans, Belgians, and Hungarians. It was used to hold Irish prisoners involved in the 1916 Easter Rising, for internment in both World Wars, as a borstal and for a variety of other purposes. Cell occupied by Oscar Wilde, as seen during Reading's 2016 Year of Culture
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