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This article explores the relational gender dynamics of 8 community health workers and their male clients based in Cape Town

• Updated: 12 December 2017

Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer

• Letters, video and telephone calls

  Letters You can contact a prisoner by writing to them. Write the person’s…

• Email and social media

  Prisoners are not allowed to access social networking websites (such as…

• Banned items

  You must not send or give anything to a prisoner that: is indecent or…

• Sending money

  You can send money to someone in prison by making an online payment by…

• Visiting someone in prison

  You can make an online request to visit someone in prison in most cases.…

Things to consider when buying or using cosmetics.

• Updated: 10 July 2025

Guys Marsh is a men’s prison near Shaftesbury in Dorset.

• Updated: 18 September 2025

Find out about Customs Duty, excise duty and import VAT you may need to pay when you send gifts into the UK.

• Updated: 18 October 2024

What personal possessions (chattels) you need to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on, how to work out your gain

Littlehey is a prison near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire for men convicted of a sex offence.

• Updated: 22 October 2025

Use form BOR286 if you believe the Customs Duty or import VAT was wrongly calculated on an item you imported by post using Royal Mail or Parcelforce.

Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.

• Updated: 15 November 2021