Read our Expectations for different types of detention. Expectations are based on and referenced against international human rights standards, with the aim of promoting treatment and conditions in detention. They are updated periodically to reflect changes to our healthy prison tests, HMI Prisons and Ofsted inspection frameworks, and human rights standards.
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