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HMP Chelmsford – encouraging progress at previously failing prison

...how 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...

Updated on 2nd April 2024


HMP Swaleside – regime buckling under acute staffing shortages

...(IRPs) 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....

Updated on 2nd April 2024


HMP&YOI Foston Hall – most violent prison in the women’s estate

...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. Rather they judge...

Updated on 3rd April 2024


HMP Wandsworth – violence and overcrowding still key issues

...of Prisons Notes to editors Read the HMP Wandsworth independent review of progress, published on 29 July 2022. HM Inspectorate of Prisons is an independent inspectorate, inspecting places of detention...

Updated on 9th April 2024


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

...of Prisons One of the key improvements that inspectors noted was the reduction of self-harm, which, while it remained higher than other comparable prisons, had fallen by 56% since the...

Updated on 21st March 2024


HMP Peterborough (Men)

Peterborough (Men) healthy prison scores What we found Peterborough’s population was transient and demand for resettlement help was high. The prison had released around 1,200 men in the last 12...

Updated on 24th May 2024


Prison holding serious offenders is issued with Urgent Notification, with highest rate of serious assaults on officers and chronic staff shortages

...the prisoners at Woodhill said that their experience would make them less likely to reoffend in the future, a far lower proportion than at similar prisons. As I have repeatedly...

Updated on 22nd March 2024


Complaints, FOIs and publications scheme

...sent to us by email or post to the address below. HM Inspectorate of Prisons 3rd floor 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 4PU Email: hmiprisons.enquiries@hmiprisons.gov.uk Whistleblowing HMI Prisons...

Updated on 24th April 2024


Fifth prison in a year issued with an Urgent Notification for improvement as inspectors find violence, squalid conditions and spiralling self-harm

...Inspector of Prisons Bedford had the highest levels of violent assaults against staff in adult male prisons in England and Wales, even higher than at HMP Woodhill, which received an...

Updated on 20th February 2024


Another prison is issued with an urgent notification as Chief Inspector warns of increasingly difficult times ahead

...more prisons are going to start to struggle. The situation in many prisons is concerning and we need to see resolute support from the centre over the coming months to...

Updated on 22nd March 2024