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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.
Violence and self-harm continue to rise as youth custody continues to struggle to recover from the pandemic
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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.
Fifth prison in a year issued with an Urgent Notification for improvement as inspectors find violence, squalid conditions and spiralling self-harm
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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.
Reports published 13 November 2023
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Reports on inspections of HMP Huntercombe and HMP High Down
Bristol prison remains one of the most unsafe in the country
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A report on Bristol prison published today sets out in greater detail the concerns that led to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons writing to the Secretary of State for Justice in July to invoke an Urgent Notification for improvement.
Report published 12 October 2023
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A report on an independent review of progress at HMP/YOI Eastwood Park
Yarl’s Wood – worrying decline in safety for detainees held in prison-like conditions
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Yarl’s Wood, an immigration removal centre holding both men and women near Bedford, is no longer safe enough according to a recent inspection by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
Aylesbury prison: substantial improvement in response to a worrying earlier inspection
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Inspectors returning to HMP/YOI Aylesbury for an independent review of progress were impressed by the substantial improvements that the governor and his team had made in response to a concerning inspection at the end of 2022.