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Report published 18 December 2023

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A report on an independent review of progress at HMP Hewell

HMP Swaleside: Persistent challenges with staffing hampering rehabilitation for high risk offenders

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A prison holding men convicted of serious offences and who pose a high risk of harm to the public is continuing to struggle because of its reliance on officers bussed in from other jails.

Report published 4 December 2023

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A report on an inspection of HMP Littlehey

Chronic staff shortages underpinning problems with drugs, violence and self-harm at HMP Woodhill

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A report on Woodhill prison published today reveals the full scale of problems that led HM Chief Inspector of Prisons to write to the Secretary of State for Justice in August to invoke an Urgent Notification about the state of the jail.

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.

Preparing prisoners for release

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As more prisoners are being released from prison earlier in their sentences in order to free space in the crowded prison estate, Charlie Taylor reflects on ongoing challenges to preparing prisoners for release.

Reports published 13 November 2023

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Reports on inspections of HMP Huntercombe and HMP High Down

Report published 30 October 2023

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A report on an inspection of HMP/YOI Sudbury