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The importance of good prisons in a criminal justice system
...meaningful to do and they need to be kept both physically and mentally healthy. This means that rehabilitation works best when there are close links between prisons and the community....
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World Literacy Day – the central importance of reading in prisons
...activity has, with rare exception, consistently been the lowest scoring of our four healthy prison tests and, in 2022–23, we rated 36 out of 37 men’s prisons as insufficiently good...
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Chief Inspector’s blog: short-staffing in prisons must be tackled
...see similar difficulties with staffing in most prisons in the South East of England, where prisons have to compete with local businesses able to offer higher wages or greater flexibility,...
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HMP Hull – an impressive culture of reform, but prisoners still locked up for most of the day
...wanted an independent assessment of how far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs are not inspections and do not result in new...
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Inspectorate finds poor safety at Foston Hall women’s prison
...in the inspection of five women’s prisons – Low Newton, Styal, Send, Downview and Foston Hall – in the last six months. While identifying good practice in some prisons, the...
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HMP/YOI Bronzefield – too many women released without stable accommodation
Inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons judged outcomes for women in all four healthy prison tests – safety, respect, purposeful activity, and release and rehabilitation planning – to be ‘reasonably...
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Why HMI Prisons is proposing to stop making recommendations
...as part of their healthy prison assessments at the next inspection. Since I became Chief Inspector in 2020, I have made the quality of leadership in prisons my particular focus....
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HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall – improved leadership culture and renewed sense of purpose
...determination. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Notes to editors Read the HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall independent review of progress report, published on 1 April 2022. HM Inspectorate of Prisons...
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Preparing prisoners for release
...Reports from the Inspectorate of Prisons have for many years criticised the lack of purposeful activity in our jails. It has always been the lowest scoring of our healthy prison...
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HMP Woodhill – staffing crisis hinders progress
...began in April 2019. They were developed because Ministers wanted an independent assessment of how far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs...
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