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Nottinghamshire police custody - day-to-day leadership lacking and many areas below standard

Inspectors found a “lack of day-to-day leadership and oversight in custody suites” in the Nottinghamshire Police force area, with key failings in the treatment and conditions of detainees.

Published: 26 March 2019

HMP Onley - a fundamentally unsafe prison that must break out of a vicious circle of drugs and violence

HMP Onley, a training prison in Warwickshire with 80% of its population from London, was found by inspectors to be “fundamentally unsafe” with high levels of drugs and violence.

Published: 21 March 2019

HMP/YOI Stoke Heath - safe and ordered prison urged to get more prisoners into work, training and education

HMP//YOI Stoke Heath, a training and resettlement prison holding up to 782 male prisoners in rural Shropshire, was found by inspectors to be “overwhelmingly safe.” Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, said the 2015 inspection of the jail had found reasonably good outcomes – the second highest assessment – against all four HMI Prisons […]

Published: 19 March 2019

Custody in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire courts - reasonably good overall

Custody facilities in the nine Crown and magistrates’ courts in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire were found by inspectors to be “reasonably good” overall.

Published: 13 March 2019

HMP Lancaster Farms - competent and decent prison with the capacity to improve further

HMP Lancaster Farms, a resettlement prison in Lancashire, showed some improvements over three years but not enough for inspectors to change their assessments from their previous visit.

Published: 12 March 2019

HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay – a successful and effective open prison

HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay, an open prison in Suffolk holding up to 485 adult prisoners, was found to be a “very safe” jail with good or reasonably good outcomes for those detained.

Published: 05 March 2019