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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.…

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people travelling abroad.

• Updated: 19 June 2023

How to book and make a secure video call with somebody in prison.

• Updated: 23 July 2024

Check the tariff classification for tape made of elastic textile fabric.

• Updated: 28 March 2022

The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, also known as Sarah’s Law, lets those who care for young people find out if a person has a record for child sexual offences.

• Updated: 3 April 2023

Find out how to account for VAT when you rent out and part-exchange pre-recorded video cassette films.

• Updated: 27 September 2017

This information is to help British nationals overseas make informed decisions, following a rape or other form of sexual assault abroad.

• Updated: 4 December 2025

The Verne is a prison on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, for men convicted of a sex offence.

• Updated: 30 October 2025

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

• Updated: 22 October 2025

Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.

• Updated: 7 April 2017