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HMP Belmarsh – a safer prison but more work to be done on purposeful activity

...Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs are not inspections and do not result in new judgements against our healthy prison tests. Rather they judge progress being...

Updated on 10th April 2024


How good leadership can transform prisons

I remember it well because, as it happened, I was having coffee that day with another former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbotham, who told me to read his report...

Updated on 26th March 2024


HMYOI Feltham A – decent outcomes sustained for children

...Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Notes to editors Read the HMYOI Feltham A independent review of progress report, published on 25 November 2022. HM Inspectorate of Prisons is...

Updated on 2nd April 2024


HMP/YOI Rochester – clean and decent living conditions still lacking

...of Prisons Notes to editors Read the HMP/YOI Rochester independent review of progress, published on 8 November 2022. HM Inspectorate of Prisons is an independent inspectorate, inspecting places of detention...

Updated on 2nd April 2024


HMYOI Werrington – high levels of violence pose ongoing threat to progress

...far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs are not inspections and do not result in new judgements against our healthy prison tests....

Updated on 2nd April 2024


HMP Erlestoke – impressive change improving prisoner outcomes

...began in April 2019. They were developed because Ministers wanted an independent assessment of how far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs...

Updated on 10th April 2024


HMYOI Cookham Wood – some progress but violence levels remain high

...because Ministers wanted an independent assessment of how far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs are not inspections and do not result...

Updated on 10th April 2024


HMP/YOI Deerbolt – far too little progress restoring purposeful activity

...were developed because Ministers wanted an independent assessment of how far prisons had implemented HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ recommendations following particularly concerning prison inspections. IRPs are not inspections and do...

Updated on 16th April 2024


Bristol prison remains one of the most unsafe in the country

...Bristol was categorically failing.” HM Chief Inspector of Prisons  Notes to editors Read the HMP Bristol report, published on 17 October 2023. HM Inspectorate of Prisons is an independent inspectorate,...

Updated on 20th February 2024


How we inspect

...The Chief Inspector of Prisons or the Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons joins the team on the penultimate day to contribute to the quality assurance and assessment process at the...

Updated on 3rd June 2024