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…courses and improve prisoners’ employment prospects; and help with health, drugs and alcohol abuse issues was good, while the Kainos community provided a ‘Challenge to Change’ programme for medium-high risk prisoners that focused on thinking skills. However, inspectors had some concerns: in some cases overly rigid criteria were applied for accepting prisoners into the prison, weak justification was used for transferring prisoners out, and there wa…

Published: 19 February 2013

Date: November 1, 2018
Expectation area: Security

…ving violence. Nearly half of prisoners said it was easy to obtain illicit drugs in the prison and 22% tested positive during random mandatory drug tests, but there was no comprehensive drug supply reduction strategy. However, care for those in crisis or at risk of self-harm was reasonably good. Inspectors saw too many examples of low level poor behaviour such as open vaping on wings, prisoners being inappropriately dressed, the use of bad languag…

Published: 20 August 2019

…nspection, it was now rising again. This was linked to the availability of drugs, associated debt and bullying, as well as gang-related violence. In response, some prisoners chose to isolate themselves in their cells, some for several months. Inspectors were told repeatedly that some prison officers behaved in an unacceptable manner, such as making inappropriate comments to prisoners. Use of force in response to disruption was very poorly overseen…

Published: 16 August 2023

…than at the previous inspection. Despite a series of initiatives to tackle drugs there was, Mr Clarke said, “considerable evidence of a drug problem within the prison… Many prisoners thought it was easy to get hold of illicit substances and testing suggested a high, but reducing, positive rate.” Staff-prisoner relationships in general were very good with clean and well-maintained outside areas. Cells were reasonable, as was the food, and there wer…

Published: 12 March 2019

…dequate; significant numbers of prisoners reported that it was easy to get drugs in the prison or that they had developed a problem while there; prisoners could not get enough clean clothes or clothes that fitted, adequate bedding or cleaning materials; much of the prison was dirty and prisoners complained of cockroach infestation; inspectors observed some disturbing and dismissive attitudes from some staff; the promotion of equality had been negl…

Published: 17 September 2013

…third felt unsafe at the time of the inspection. There were high levels of drugs, violence and assaults and use of force by staff. In a letter to Mr Gauke on 17 January, made public today under the Urgent Notification protocol (and attached with additional debriefing notes from the inspection), Mr Clarke said: “Inspection findings at HMP Nottingham tell a story of dramatic decline since 2010.” Inspections in 2014, 2016 and 2018 found safety to be…

Published: 18 January 2018

…s every aspect of HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ safety test, and the flow of drugs into the prison, which had been a chief cause of violence in the jail at previous inspection in 2016 and 2018, had been stemmed with improvements to perimeter security, the use of dogs, and the introduction of body scanners. Violence had reduced significantly – assaults against fellow prisoners had reduced by almost half, and against staff by 39%. Inspectors judged th…

Published: 12 July 2022