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Following an inspection of a previously failing prison, Birmingham, Charlie Taylor considers how an impressive governor used an Urgent Notification as a catalyst to transform it.

Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Pentonville

Reports on inspections of short-term holding facilities managed by Border Force and court custody facilities in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Reports on inspections at HMP Gartree and HMP Stocken

On International Day of Families, Angus Jones, Team Leader for Children and Young People, reflects on the vital importance of families for children in custody.

Reports on an inspection of HMP/YOI Stoke Heath and an independent review of progress at HMP Wayland

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has issued an Urgent Notification to the Secretary of State for Justice, demanding immediate action to improve the conditions in which children are being held at an institution in Kent.

Inspectors returning to HMP Feltham B were impressed by the hard work of staff in a very challenging environment, which was dominated by high levels of violence between different groups of prisoners.

Two maximum security prisons are effectively discharging their duties to keep dangerous criminals behind bars, but are missing important opportunities to support prisoners in reducing their future risk of harm.

Purposeful activity in prisons – that is access to education, employment, exercise or time out of cell to take part in meaningful activity – has never been as bad as it is now, with prisons continuing to fail to return to the pre-pandemic regimes which supported the rehabilitation and well-being of prisoners. The findings of a new report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons looking at weekends in prison confirms that the high levels of lock-up reported during the week continue in the weekend and, in most cases, were much worse.