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Recent independent inspections have raised serious questions about the degree to which our prison system is giving sufficient priority to providing prisoners with genuinely purposeful ways to spend their time.

Published: 30 June 2022

Today’s inspection report into HMP/YOI Bronzefield reflects a recurring theme across women’s prisons – too many prisoners are being released into the community without a suitable place to live.

Published: 11 May 2022

Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission have issued a second Urgent Notification for Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre.

Published: 18 June 2021

With the support of HMI Prisons, a research team from the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), has obtained a £240,000 grant from the ESRC’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative to study HMI Prisons’ raw data for the first time.

Published: 08 June 2021

Fourteen months after HM Inspectorate of Prisons suspended its programme of full inspections as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has announced that full inspection visits will resume on 10 May 2021.

Published: 10 May 2021

We have published a new edition of our Expectations which are specific to the treatment and conditions experienced by women in custody. This edition aims to focus more clearly on key outcomes for women in prison, while acknowledging important findings from recent reviews and reports and drawing on current thinking about what constitutes good practice. […]

Published: 22 April 2021

In the week beginning 15 February 2021, HMI Prisons inspectors visited Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent and Penally Camp in Pembrokeshire. These sites are currently being used as asylum accommodation.

Published: 09 February 2021

This report provides a cross-system view of how the criminal justice system reacted in the immediate aftermath of the first national COVID-19 lockdown (23 March to 10 May 2020), and of how the system has managed since.

Published: 19 January 2021

The rapid rise in community infection rates and the discovery of more infectious strains of COVID-19 has led to new restrictions in England and Wales. In response to this, we have updated our scrutiny visit methodology and health and safety guidance.

Published: 13 January 2021

HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ annual stakeholder survey is now live.

Published: 23 November 2020