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Detainee escorts and removals

Published:
Short thematic review by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, August 2009

Commissioning healthcare in prisons

Published:
Commissioning healthcare in prisons: The results of joint work between the Healthcare Commission and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons in 2007/08 (13 August 2009)

Prolific and other priority offenders

Published:
Prolific and priority offenders: a joint inspection of the prolific and priority offenders programme (July 2009)

Race relations in prisons: Responding to adult women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds

Published:
Thematic report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, March 2009

Disabled prisoners

Published:
A short thematic review on the care and support of prisoners with a disability, March 2009

The prison characteristics that predict prisons being assessed as performing ‘well’

Published:
A thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, January 2009

The indeterminate sentence for public protection

Published:
A thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HM Chief Inspector of Probation, September 2008

Prisoners under escort

Published:
A short follow-up thematic review, August 2008

Older prisoners in England and Wales

Published:
A follow-up to the 2004 thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, June 2008

Time out of cell

Published:
A short thematic review, December 2007