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HMP Altcourse – maintains positive outcomes for prisoners but self-inflicted deaths a concern
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Inspectorate finds poor safety at Foston Hall women’s prison
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A women’s prison has been assessed by HM Inspectorate of Prisons as poor for safety in a “rare and unexpected finding” in a recent inspection, which identified very high violence and self-harm and inadequate care for vulnerable women.
HMP & YOI Rochester – settled but much more could be done to provide activity
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HMP & YOI Rochester, in Kent, was found by inspectors to be reasonably safe and settled, despite some poor living conditions for prisoners.
HMP/YOI Styal – inspectors confident that leadership can drive improvement
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Styal women’s prison in Cheshire remained safe and respectful, inspectors found, but faced the challenges of staffing shortages and an increase in lower-level violence as a result of frustrations with COVID-19 restrictions.
HMP Wandsworth – planned population increase threatens limited progress in troubled prison
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Inspectors who visited the heavily overcrowded, vermin-infested HMP Wandsworth men’s prison in September 2021 concluded that a reduction of 300 in the population, and dynamic work by the governor, had prevented it from being overwhelmed by its many challenges.