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HMP Highpoint
Highpoint healthy prison scores What we found One of the largest category C training and resettlement prisons in England, Highpoint was failing to deliver its core purpose to prepare men...
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Chronic staff shortages underpinning problems with drugs, violence and self-harm at HMP Woodhill
...identified had, in fact, worsened.” Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons The frustration caused by the poor conditions in the prison contributed to rising violence, drug use and self-harm...
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HMP Lewes
Lewes healthy prison scores What we found The prison was battling rising violence, self-harm, drugs and a churn of men caught in a cycle of homelessness and offending as the...
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Our research
Research forms an important part of our inspection evidence. We gather and analyse quantitative and qualitative data about prisons and other places of detention. These findings are triangulated with other...
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“Neglected” Bedford jail will need sustained support to improve after full inspection report details some of the worst conditions inspectors have seen
...mould in one cell was overpowering, with the walls damp to the touch, while the underground segregation unit, which held acutely mentally unwell men, was a disgrace. If our prisons...
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HMP Nottingham – more work needed to create a safe environment
...Chief Inspector of Prisons Levels of self-harm had reduced by 17% since the last inspection, but remained too high, and there had been one self-inflicted death since HMI Prisons had...
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HMYOI Wetherby and Keppel – lack of progress for children
The inspection, carried out by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in December 2021, also found that outcomes had deteriorated in all healthy prison tests in Wetherby’s Keppel unit, holding some of...
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Deaths, drugs and despair: Wandsworth prison issued with an Urgent Notification for improvement
...a much lower figure than other reception prisons. Adding to this, only 11% of those released from Wandsworth in the past year had had sustainable accommodation to go to. The...
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HMP/YOI Hindley
Hindley healthy prison scores What we found Inexperienced prison officers were struggling to manage a very challenging prison dominated by a ‘tsunami’ of drugs, high levels of violence and self-harm...
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HMP Cardiff
Cardiff healthy prison scores What we found Cardiff was very overcrowded, with nearly two-thirds of the population sharing cells designed for one, however, it was clean, settled and performing better...
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