Maghaberry Prison (75 people)

Maghaberry is a largest of Northern Ireland’s three custodial facilities. It is a modern high security prison, which accommodates over 1,400 adult male long-term, sentenced and remand prisoners, in both separated and integrated conditions. Maghaberry provides person centred support to those committed to custody, allowing them to gain or build on their existing Educational and Vocational skills and offering the opportunity to engage in offence and rehabilitative focused work. There is an emphasis on positive family contact and there are a number of programmes run in conjunction with voluntary community based organisations to assist men in custody to become better parents and strengthen their links with their families whilst they are in custody. This assists with their reintegration on release.

Maghaberry is located near Lisburn, which is approximately 25 miles from Belfast City Centre.

Visit One (25 people) – this will include a tour of old and new accommodation facilities and prisoner workshops.
Visit Two (25 People) – this will include a demonstration of security techniques in our main emergency training facility, and access to our prisoner transport fleet, including those which use synthetic diesel (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) as part of the Northern Ireland Prison Service’s ecofriendly policies.
Visit Three (25 people) – this will include a tour of the ‘Mourne Complex’ which accommodates long-serving prisoners.

Buses depart at 8.30am from Conference Centre, Belfast – returning to the Conference Centre at approximately 1.30pm.