Welcome to the New Future Maze/Long Kesh website

The Reinvestment and Reform Initiative (RRI) was announced on 2 May 2002 by the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the then First Minister and Deputy First Minister. One strand of the RRI deals with the unprecedented transfer of some former military bases and security sites to the Northern Ireland administration. This transfer emphasised the Government’s strong belief that sites that once symbolised the period of conflict could now become significant engines for economic and social regeneration.

One of these sites is the former Maze Prison which transferred to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to regenerate on 1 April 2004.