What HMP Five Wells is
HMP Five Wells holds adult men under a private contract. It was built to relieve pressure on Midlands and eastern trainers.
Book Five Wells explicitly; Woodhill and Bedford locals will not honour a Five Wells time slot.
Locating someone at HMP Five Wells
HMP Five Wells does not publish a landing list. Use GOV.UK Find a prisoner with name and date of birth. HMPPS only confirms the prison if the person consents. If they were in court today, wait until the next working day before you decide the form is wrong.
Visiting HMP Five Wells
Book HMP Five Wells through the national prison-visits service and the official GOV.UK page. You must already be on the visitor list. Session times change; we only reprint a timetable when we have fetched it from that page.
Getting to Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Central or Woburn Sands, then a taxi to Woburn Road. The site is edge-of-city.
Questions about HMP Five Wells
- Is Five Wells the same as HMP Woodhill?
- No. Woodhill is high security at Milton Keynes (MK14). Five Wells is the contracted Category C at MK17.
- Can I search who is in HMP Five Wells online?
- No public UK inmate roster exists. Use GOV.UK Find a prisoner, which requires the prisoner’s consent.