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Children’s custody: a decade of missed opportunities and decline
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In this blog, Angus Jones, HMI Prisons Team Leader for Children and Young People, talks about the sustained failure to improve outcomes for the small number of children in custody.
Key findings paper digs deeper into the ongoing failings in purposeful activity
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Purposeful prisons: time out of cell. A key findings paper by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
HMP Brixton: severely overcrowded jail failing to provide education and training or reduce men’s risk ahead of release
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Brixton is a category C training and resettlement prison in the heart of London holding a complex population with a large proportion of men convicted of sexual offences, significant levels of mental health need and substance misuse.
Reports published 16 September
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Reports on inspections of HMP/YOI Hindley, HMP Woodhill and HMP/YOI Erlestoke.
Desperate times for prisons: Chief Inspector of prisons calls for sustained action to tackle the crisis
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Against the backdrop of the growing prison population crisis, the 2023-24 annual report of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons paints a devastating picture of what is happening inside our jails.
Report published 2 September
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Report on an inspection of court custody facilities in Wales
First category C prison issued with an Urgent Notification following a decade of systemic failure and decline
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, has written to the Secretary of State for Justice to issue an Urgent Notification for improvement at HMP Rochester after a damning inspection found decrepit conditions, rising violence and self-harm, widespread illicit drug use and a dearth of activity to prepare men for release.