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Inspectors returning to HMP Aylesbury found a prison thrown into chaos by changes to its role made in response to national prison population pressures.

On International Women’s Day 2023, Sandra Fieldhouse, Team Leader for Women, explores some of the particular needs of women in custody.

Reports in inspections of HMP/YOI New Hall and HMP Garth

Reports on inspections of HMP Bullingdon, HMP Wakefield and an independent review of progress at HMP Forest Bank

This blog was written by Angus Jones, Team Leader for Children and Young People. Find out more about the conditions and experience of children in detention by reading our annual report on Children in custody: 2021-2022.

Inspectors returning to HMP Exeter were so concerned by the high rates of suicide and self-harm, inadequate care for vulnerable new arrivals and oversight of health care that they issued an Urgent Notification within days of completing the inspection.

Reports on an independent review of progress at HMP Ranby and an unannounced inspection of Cheshire and Merseyside Court Custody

Acutely mentally unwell women were being held in cells with scratches and bloodstains on the wall, evidence of previous occupants’ distress, an inspection report into HMP/YOI Eastwood Park has found.

Children in custody feel safer than ever before but are isolated from their friends and families and are continuing to receive inadequate education post-pandemic, a new report confirms.

At every inspection, HMI Prisons assesses the progress of the prison against four areas – safety, respect, purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning – and awards a score: four for good; three for reasonably good; two for not sufficiently good; and one for poor.