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Inspection reports on HMP Ashfield and HMP Bure and a report on an independent review of progress at HMP Maidstone

Reports on inspections of HMP/YOI East Sutton Park and HMP Dovegate

A report on an independent review of progress at HMP Exeter

A report on an independent review of progress at HMP Hewell

A prison holding men convicted of serious offences and who pose a high risk of harm to the public is continuing to struggle because of its reliance on officers bussed in from other jails.

A report on an inspection of HMP Littlehey

A report on Woodhill prison published today reveals the full scale of problems that led HM Chief Inspector of Prisons to write to the Secretary of State for Justice in August to invoke an Urgent Notification about the state of the jail.

An inspection of HMP Lindholme, a category C prison in South Yorkshire, has found that, rather than working to reduce the risk of reoffending, it was failing to provide high-risk prisoners with access to the interventions, education or training that they needed ahead of release, and many of them were developing drug problems while they were there.

Two reports published today paint a bleak picture of youth custody in England and Wales. While the number of children in custody continued to fall in 2022-23, levels of violence and self-harm rose by just over a quarter and a third respectively.

Conditions at HMP Bedford, a category B reception prison, had deteriorated so sharply since the last inspection that the Chief Inspector of Prisons issued an Urgent Notification for improvement within days of finishing the inspection on 9 November 2023.