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Booking your visit by email

You can now book your visit by email. We hope this makes booking an easier and more simple process, as well as freeing up the telephone lines. Please note you can still book your visit by phone.

For Email Bookings please follow the instructions carefully.
Email .
Enter the prison number, name and date of birth of the person you wish to visit.
Enter your name, date of birth, address and relationship to the prisoner.
Also put this information for anyone else wishing to visit with you (up to 3 adults, over 10, per visit).
Ensure that names and dates of births of all children (under 10) are included.
Make sure you include the time and date of your visit. (48hrs notice is required for all visits).

This is for booking only and no other correspondence.

Play Specialist starts this Summer!

Jigsaw is delighted to announce we have secured 3 years funding and employed a Play Specialist to guide and support Dads inside prison to play age appropriately and creatively with their children in the Play Area during specified Visit times. We have had an enormous and moving response from our consultations with prisoners and their families, and cannot wait to begin this new project. Both visitors and Dad's are expecting this will help them bond with their children more as well as teaching them valuable parenting and communication skills for after release.

Awards to Jigsaw Visitors’ Centre

Winner of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) Partnership Working Category 2009, and Overall Winner of NOMS Yorkshire and Humberside Staff Awards 2009.

Following an assessment by an independent body Jigsaw has been awarded ISO 9001 certification. This certification has only been achieved by about 5% of UK businesses and this prestigious award is supported by the Government and recognised world-wide.

Jigsaw in Court!

You can obtain information about Jigsaw Visitors’ Centre when you attend Court either at Leeds or Bradford, Magistrates or Crown. Leaflets can be found in the display stands or ask the ushers who all have our booklets.

New play area

We are delighted to say that there will now be a play area in the visits room for HMP Leeds. This means all child visitors during school holidays and at weekends will have supervised play activities. We hope this improves the experience of visiting prison and the general wellbeing of children of prisoners.

Listener from HMP Leeds

We are pleased to have a Listener from HMP Leeds in the Centre every day, as well as our new Family Reception Worker.