Prison Service Orders are long-term mandatory instructions which are intended to last for an indefinite period. The following PSOs are currently in force.
- 0050 – public relations
- 0100 – the prison rules 1999
- All Prison Rules (Legislation website)
- 0101 – YOI rules
- All YOI rules (Legislation website)
- 0150 – civil justice system
- 0160 – magistrates training visits to prisons
- 0200 – standards manual
- 0250 – self audit
- 0400 – corporate issues chapter 2 prisoners information book
- 0400a – corporate issues chapter 1 flags
- 0550 – prisoner induction
- 0905 – operation of the police national computer
- 1025 – the person escort record
- 1030 – video links from courts
- 1215 – professional standards preventing and handling staff wrongdoing
- 1251 – national archives
- 1300 – investigations
- 1310 – anti fraud strategy
- 1600 – use of force
- 1700 – segregation (Zip 3mb)
- 1801 – production of prisoners at the request of the police
- 1810 – maintaining order in prisons
- 2205 – offender assessment and sentence management
- 2300 – resettlement
- 2350 – housing needs assessment
- 2400 – democratic therapeutic communities
- 2510 – prisoners requests and complaints procedures
- 2600 – legal issues relating to prisoners
- 3050 – continuity of healthcare for prisoners
- 3100 – clinical governance quality in prison healthcare
- 3200 – health promotion
- 3550 – clinical services
- 3601 – mandatory drugs testing
- 3625 – testing of external drug workers
- 3630 – carats
- 3802 – management of inadvertent exposure to asbestos
- 3803 – fire safety
- 3805 – zoonotic infections
- 3806 – display screen equipment health and safety issues
- 3842 – radiation safety for dental and medical x ray equipment
- 3843 – radiation safety xray equipment
- 4190 – strategy for working with the voluntary and community sector
- 4350 – effective regime interventions
- 4360 – correctional services accreditation panel
- 4400 – prisoner communications – chapter 3
- 4405 – assisted prison visits
- 4445 – civil partnerships
- 4450 – marriage of prisoners
- 4455 – requests from prisoners to change their name
- 4460 – prisoners pay
- 4480 – prisoners representative associations
- 4600 – unconvicted unsentenced and civil prisoners
- 4615 – prolific and other priority offenders strategy
- 4625 – productions in civil proceedings
- 4650 – prisoners voting rights
- 4695 – DNA sampling of prisoners
- 4700 – indeterminate sentence manual
- 4800 – women prisoners
- 4960 – detention under section 92
- 5005 – single portions
- 5010 – prison service catering
- 5400 – transport manual
- 5800 – estate management chapter 1
- 5901 – maintenance of prison service buildings
- 6000 – parole release and recall
- 6100 – the bail system
- 6101 – bail information schemes
- 6200 – transfer of prisoners
- 6300 – release on temporary license (ROTL)
- 6700 – home detention curfew
- 7100 – KPI, KPT and additional measures
- 7500 – finance
- 7501 – taxation
- 7700 – procurement and materials management
- 7850 – interface between ccg and area managers
- 8260 – custodial care NVQ levels 2 and 3
- 8404 – management of attendance
- 8410 – flexible working hours
- 8525 – poa local dispute resolution
- 8550 – staff grievance procedures after 30th March 2009
- 8625 – staff fitness strategy
- 8800 – corporate image & uniform
- 8805 – identification of prison staff
- 9020 – data protection act 1998 and freedom of info act
- 9025 – archiving and retention policy
- 9030 – handling and approval of requests for it
- 9035 – hard charging for IT and telephony infrastructure
- 9050 – functional mailboxes