HMP Kennet will be demolished this summer to make way for the development of a hospital park.
The former category C men's prison in Maghull has a storied, if brief, history and closed in 2017, just 10 years after it opened. The prison came to be when the National Offender Management Service faced overcrowding in prisons across the country in 2006. One of the solutions to combat the issue was for Ashworth high security hospital’s east site to be converted into a prison. After a £19m conversion project , this became known as Kennet Prison.
When the facility opened officially in February 2008, it was said it would help solve the region’s prison population crisis. This didn't go exactly to plan.
