Can you visit anyone in prison? Uk?

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No you can't. You can only visit if the prisoner accepts the visit - usually they have to apply for a Visiting Order to set it up. The most common way this works is they will apply for a VO for specific visitor(s), and if the prison approves, you get the VO and you ring up or email to book it. Email is better - getting anyone to actually answer the phone on a prison visits booking line could well be classed under "recreational impossibilities". See my other answer to you.

No you cannot. The only people who can visit inmates are people that the inmate wishes to have visit them.

If you don't know anyone in Prison, there is no way you will be allowed to ask to visit anyone.

I worked for HMP UK

prisoners must send orders out to people they would like to visit them in the uk, but i think the fact that you ask about age means you must be under 18 (if you were older you wouldn't need to ask) and the last place an under 18 year old needs to be going is to a prison to meet a stranger who has been imprisoned for, as you put it 'serious' crimes. why would you want to go and meet these people?

Most prisons make the prisoners list the names of people who will be visiting when they first go in. So if your name isn't on the list from the beginning you can't visit. Also minors must be accompanied by an adult.

No unless that person sends you a visiting order. The Lord Chancellor grants permission for volunteers to visit inmates for specific purposes.

You need to actually go and see a specific person, you cant just visit random people.

Not unless the jail/prison allows visitors.