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HMP/YOI Norwich - decline since 2016 and more coherent strategy needed to sustain recent improvements

HMP/YOI Norwich, a complex multi-functional prison serving East Anglia, was found to have deteriorated over three years in HM Inspectorate of Prison’s healthy prison tests.

Published: 27 February 2020

HMYOI Aylesbury - safer with positive signs but increasing population could put progress at risk

HMYOI Aylesbury, a young offender institution (YOI) holding male prisoners aged between 18 and 20, was found to have become safer and showed some improvement in other areas.

Published: 25 February 2020

Bedfordshire Police Custody - positive features but concerns over lack of progress in some areas

Joint criminal justice inspectorates found some positive features in Bedfordshire Police’s two custody suites but also identified a lack of progress on key concerns from the previous inspection five years before.

Published: 21 February 2020

HMYOI Cookham Wood - under pressure as children diverted from Feltham but conditions can improve in coming year

HM Young Offender Institution (YOI) Cookham Wood in Kent, which holds up to 188 boys aged between 15 and 18, was found to be insufficiently good in all four of HM Inspectorate’s healthy prison tests.

Published: 18 February 2020

HMP Isle of Wight - improvements by local managers but lack of support from prison service nationally

Inspectors revisiting HMP Isle of Wight to review improvement following a full inspection last year found a mixed picture and assessed overall that progress was not good enough.

Published: 14 February 2020

HMP Dovegate - settled, well-run and safer

HMP Dovegate, near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, was found to have made some notable progress over the last two years, becoming a safer prison.

Published: 13 February 2020

HMP Wealstun - ready availability of drugs undermining good work

HMP Wealstun, a men’s training and resettlement prison in West Yorkshire, presented a contrasting picture of good work undermined by significant weaknesses, particularly the failure to tackle drugs.

Published: 13 February 2020

Children in custody - negative experiences underline need for reform of YOIs

Children in the five Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England and Wales are more negative about their treatment by staff, time out of cell and access to everyday essentials than those held in Secure Training Centres (STC), according to an analysis of the perceptions of their experiences in 2018-19.

Published: 12 February 2020

HMP Wormwood Scrubs - impressive, though fragile, improvement

HMP Wormwood Scrubs — built in the late nineteenth century and one of the country’s most famous prisons — was found to have made encouraging progress since a very troubling inspection two years ago.

Published: 11 February 2020

HMP Rye Hill - effective in its role of managing high-risk sex offenders

HMP Rye Hill, a modern training prison in the West Midlands holding only men convicted of sexual offences, was found by inspectors to have remained an effective prison.

Published: 07 February 2020