Shrewsbury's Dana Prison to remain tourist attraction while future is determined

Immersive Events, which has been successfully running Dana Prison, has announced a packed programme of events.

Event bosses have also confirmed the building in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, will again feature on the paranormal show, Most Haunted, when a crew from the programme stay overnight on July 1.

Immersive Events has organised outdoor cinema screenings to take place along with historic tours of the prison, and music behind bars – giving up and coming bands the chance to perform in front of a captive audience. For those wanting a more adrenalin-filled visit to the Grade II-listed building, visitors can spend a night in the jail and share their space with the prison's rumoured ghosts, take part in a prison or cell escape and dodge the guards, and re-enact their favourite fairy tales – but this time with a gruesome ending.

The prison is currently subject to a planning battle between property developer and co-owner, Trevor Osborne, and Shropshire Council and Shrewsbury Town Council, which can not agree on how the prison should be developed.

Before its closure in 2013, it was a category B/C men's prison and in 2005 was said to be the most overcrowded prison in England and Wales. A report in June 2012 by the Prison Reform Trust found it was holding 326 prisoners in spaces designed for 170 men.

Joel Campbell, of Immersive Events, which took over the prison in 2015, said: "We have a great deal planned for the coming year. There is a history tour which will offer visitors the chance to find out all about the prison.

"Last year we ran a couple of music events and, because of the success of those, we have decided to host music behind bars as we are trying to establish the prison as a live music venue. The cell escape started at the beginning of January and has gone really well. It is a smaller version of prison escape but it has been very well received."