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HMP Highpoint: Staff shortages and inadequate teaching limiting prisoners’ preparation for release

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One of the largest category C training and resettlement prisons in England is failing to deliver its core purpose to prepare men for their return to the community.

HMYOI Parc: A positive and caring culture but purposeful activity compromised by a period of transition

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Parc YOI has consistently been the best performing in England and Wales, as this inspection and previous inspections show.

Reports published 15 January 2024

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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 published 8 January 2024

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

Report published 2 January 2024

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A report on an independent review of progress at HMP Exeter

Report published 18 December 2023

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A report on an independent review of progress at HMP Hewell

HMP Swaleside: Persistent challenges with staffing hampering rehabilitation for high risk offenders

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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.

Report published 4 December 2023

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A report on an inspection of HMP Littlehey

Chronic staff shortages underpinning problems with drugs, violence and self-harm at HMP Woodhill

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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.

HMP Lindholme: serious drug problems and staff shortages hampering work to prepare high-risk offenders for release

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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.