Handling prisoner applications to marry or form a civil partnership: PSI 14/2016

This prison service instruction (PSI) explains how prisons should handle requests from prisoners to get married or enter into a civil partnership. The guidance covers:

• legal requirements and responsibilities
• evaluating requests
• security considerations, including deciding whether to allow the ceremony to take place outside of prison
• the ceremony and registration, including religious and faith-based ceremonies

This is a current PSI. It came into effect on 14 October 2016 and was last updated on 20 August 2020.