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City of London police custody - good care and inspectors confident it can improve further

Inspectors found many positive features in the way the City of London police delivered its custody services, with “a strong culture of care” which addressed the needs of vulnerable detainees.

Published: 26 April 2019

HMP & YOI Bronzefield - increasingly challenging population but an overwhelmingly safe prison

HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, the largest women’s prison in Europe, was found to have outcomes for the prisoners which were reasonably good or better across HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ healthy prison tests.

Published: 25 April 2019

HMYOI Cookham Wood - well-led and making progress but needing to tackle the culture of fighting

HMYOI Cookham Wood, near Rochester, holding 165 boys aged between 15 and 18, was found to be a “largely settled” establishment but one that also struggled to prevent the boys fighting.

Published: 18 April 2019

Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre - calm, with caring staff, but too prison-like

Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in Harmondsworth, west London, close to Heathrow, was found by inspectors to resemble a prison and to have made “uneven progress” in treatment and conditions since it was previously inspected in 2016.

Published: 16 April 2019

Chief Inspector announces new independent reviews of progress in troubled jails

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP) has announced an important series of new follow-up visits to failing and unsafe jails designed to give the government an independent assessment of how much progress has been made in improving the treatment and conditions for prisoners.

Published: 03 April 2019