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…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

…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

…w at a similar level to other local prisons, and much of it was related to drugs. However, inspectors were most concerned about purposeful activity, which declined to ‘poor’, the lowest assessment. Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, said this was directly related to the uncertainty over the prison’s future. “We were told that there had been some delayed plans to re-role the prison to become a category C training prison. So far as the sen…

Published: 04 September 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