'They seem to think we are going to put a remand centre there,' he said.

A category C prison opened on the site in 1990, alongside the remand centre.

The situation is particularly acute in remand centres and local prisons.

The first contract for a privately managed remand centre has been awarded.

Fostered as a baby, he was sent to a children's home at 11 and to a remand centre at 16.

Risley opened as a remand centre for male and female inmates in 1964.

The remand centre was destroyed in a riot in 1990.

The go-ahead has already been given to build privately run remand centres.

This remand centre was a low security place where hardcore inmates are moved to prior to their release back into the community.

The deceased had committed suicide at a remand centre.