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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.
Offenders with learning disabilities not getting help they need in prison, say inspectors
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