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Courts custody in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Isle of Wight - many positives but use of handcuffs must be addressed

Detainees in court custody in Hampshire, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight were treated well and held in reasonable conditions, inspectors found in August 2019.

Published: 19 December 2019

HMP Onley – significant progress in reducing violence but drugs, education and training remain concerns

HMP Onley, a training prison in Warwickshire holding 740 men, 80% of them from London, had made “very mixed” progress since a troubling inspection a year before, a new report says.

Published: 18 December 2019

HMP Guys Marsh - safer but much work still needed to improve other areas of prison life

HMP Guys Marsh, a men’s training prison in Dorset, was found to have become safer, through action to tackle violence and drugs, since its last inspection at the beginning of 2019. However, progress in other areas was disappointing. In January 2019, inspectors described a prison that had started to make progress after successive poor inspections. […]

Published: 18 December 2019

HMP Littlehey – safe and respectful with some excellent outcomes for prisoners but weaker on rehabilitation

HMP Littlehey, holding more than 1,200 men convicted of sexual offences, was found to be safe and respectful, according to a recent inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons, with reasonably good work to provide purposeful activity. However, inspectors were concerned that rehabilitation and release planning was not sufficiently good, the same assessment as in […]

Published: 17 December 2019