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Can your people work safely inside a live prison?
Teams cleared to EL1 or higher work around the daily regime, under strict key and tool control.
Secure Environments
We create secure spaces.
We design, build and maintain prison spaces, with security-cleared teams working around the live regime.
Trusted by the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison Service
Delivered by Parogon
Built inside the wire.
Built inside the wire.
In a prison, the regime comes first. Every person, vehicle, tool and delivery is controlled, and the works have to fit around movement, association and lock-down. We plan around that from the first drawing.
For over 20 years Parogon has delivered for the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison Service: security improvements, fire regulation works, secure fit-out, new buildings and modular units, and maintenance behind the gate. Our teams are cleared to EL1 or higher, and every package is built to MoJ standards with certified handover.
Why Parogon
Why the MoJ and HM Prison Service trust Parogon
One team, start to finish
We design, build and maintain. No hand-offs between contractors, so nothing gets lost.
One drawing, built exactly
You sign off one complete drawing. That drawing is what gets built, to an agreed cost and programme.
Trusted inside the wire
Security-cleared teams work around the regime, under strict key and tool control.
- 20+ years: NHS, Ministry of Justice and major organisations
- Every project manager SMSTS certified
- Scope, cost and programme agreed up front
Asked first
Three questions we hear before every secure project.
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What we deliver
What we deliver inside the wire.
Security improvements
Physical upgrades installed around the regime.
- Steel grilles and mesh screens
- Secure glazing
- Doors
- Perimeter upgrades
Fire regulation services
Compliance works that pass inspection and stay passed.
- Fire doors
- Compartmentation
- Fire-stopping
- Detection
- Certified remedials
Secure fit-out
Detailing that is safe by design.
- Anti-ligature
- Anti-barricade
- Vandal-resistant
- Built to MoJ standards
New builds & extensions
Designed in-house, built inside the wire.
- Bronzefield Mental Health Unit in 16 weeks
- 235 m² office extension: steel portal frame, insulated cavity masonry
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Modular & container units
Extra secure space, fast.
- 20 and 40ft containers insulated, clad and fitted out
- Anti-ligature, anti-barricade modular units
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Purposeful spaces
Training, work and rehabilitation spaces built to a real standard.
- The Right Course training restaurant and coffee shop at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, full fit-out including M&E
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Maintenance behind the gate
Ongoing upkeep of the assets we build, by vetted teams who already know the estate.
- Planned maintenance
- Reactive repairs
- Compliance testing
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- 01Security improvements
- 02Fire regulation services
- 03Secure fit-out
- 04New builds & extensions
- 05Modular & container units
- 06Purposeful spaces
- 07Maintenance behind the gate
How we work · One team, start to finish
How we work: Design, Build, Maintain
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Design
We design with the regime, security and fire strategy from day one, and make every square metre count.
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Build
Security-cleared teams work around the daily regime, with strict key and tool control and one accountable project manager.
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Maintain
The same vetted team maintains what we built, so the estate stays compliant and secure.
Built inside the wire.
Flagship project · Category B · Live estate
HMP Winchester
Security, fire compliance, wing refurbishment, secure fit-out and container units
- schemes delivered
- Multiple
- schemes delivered
- regime maintained
- Live
- regime maintained
- secure estate
- Cat B
- secure estate
The brief
A Category B Victorian prison, kept running throughout. HMP Winchester has trusted Parogon with multiple schemes: security improvements, fire compliance, wing refurbishment, secure fit-out and container units, all delivered while the prison stayed operational.
What we did
Security-cleared teams
All cleared to EL1 or higher.
Key and tool control
Strict procedures on every package.
Certified handover
Compliant on every package, every time.
Live regime maintained
The prison kept running during the works.
The result
- Multiple
- completed schemes in a live Victorian estate
- Certified
- handback on every package
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Proof
Safe, compliant and built to last.
HMP Bronzefield · 16 weeks
Mental Health Unit
Designed in-house, with planners, to maximise usable floor space. On programme and within budget.
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HMP Bronzefield · 235 m²
Office extension
Steel portal frame and insulated cavity masonry, extending an office building in the prison grounds.
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HMP Wormwood Scrubs, London
Training restaurant
With The Right Course (Fred Sirieix): a coffee shop and restaurant to high-street standard, on time and on budget.
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Modular range · Design option
Secure pods
Anti-ligature, anti-barricade modular units for secure and custodial estates.
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Deep dive
Working inside a live regime
The establishment's routine sets the programme. We plan access, deliveries and sequencing with them before work starts.
- Teams cleared to EL1 or higher
- Key and tool control on every package
- Deliveries, vehicles and access booked through the establishment
- Works sequenced around movement, association and lock-down
- One project manager as the single point of contact for the establishment
Deep dive
Fire safety in secure estates
Older estates carry decades of penetrations, alterations and tired doors. We survey, fire-stop, compartment and certify.
- Fire doors and door sets
- Compartmentation
- Fire-stopping
- Detection
- Certified remedials
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Safe by design
Detailing for custodial and mental health settings, specified from the first drawing. HMP Bronzefield's Mental Health Unit shows how it comes together.
- Anti-ligature fixtures
- Anti-barricade doors
- Vandal-resistant finishes
- Tamper-proof services
- Secure glazing
Deep dive
Spaces with purpose
Rehabilitation needs real settings. At Wormwood Scrubs we delivered Fred Sirieix's vision for The Right Course: a coffee shop and table-service restaurant where prisoners train in hospitality for work on release, with a full fit-out including M&E, inside an operational prison.
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FAQs
Secure estate FAQs
Are your teams security cleared for prison work?
Yes. Our teams are cleared to EL1 or higher and work around the daily regime, under strict key and tool control.
Do you carry out fire stopping and fire door works in prisons?
Yes. Our fire regulation services cover fire doors, compartmentation, fire-stopping, detection and certified remedials. We've delivered fire compliance works at HMP Winchester while the prison stayed operational.
Can you build new buildings inside a prison?
Yes. At HMP Bronzefield we designed and built a new Mental Health Unit in 16 weeks and a 235 m² office extension, working with planning officers to maximise usable floor space.
Do you build to MoJ standards?
Every package is built to MoJ standards and handed back with certification, ready for sign-off.
Can you add secure space quickly with modular or container units?
Yes. Standalone container and modular units (20 and 40ft, insulated, clad and fitted out) add secure space fast, with anti-ligature and anti-barricade detailing.
Do you maintain what you build in secure estates?
Yes. The same vetted teams provide ongoing maintenance behind the gate, so they already know the estate, its procedures and its assets.
“We built Parogon to take care of a project from the first sketch to long after handover.”
Your next step
Secure works, regime uninterrupted.
Tell us about the estate and the regime. We agree scope, cost and programme up front, and plan the works around both.
- 20+
- Years of delivery
- MoJ
- Ministry of Justice partner
- Vetted
- Security-cleared teams
- Certified
- Compliant handover
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