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HMP Wymott, a male training prison in Lancashire with many vulnerable older prisoners, was found to have protected its population successfully from COVID-19 and to have maintained a “can-do” attitude to rehabilitative work during the period of restricted regime.

Published: 29 September 2020

Inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons assessed that HMP Whatton, a prison in Nottinghamshire holding 770 sex offenders, was being held back in its attempts to restore its expert rehabilitative work.

Published: 29 September 2020

Inspectors found a “very troubling” picture at HMP Erlestoke of violence, indiscipline and self-harm, with increased use of force by staff to get prisoners back into poor-quality cells in which they had been locked up for most of the day for more than five months.

Published: 22 September 2020

HMP Hewell, a large men’s local prison in Worcestershire visited by inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons after five months of COVID-19 restrictions, was found to have properly focused on managing risks from the virus and safeguarding the often transient and short-term population.

Published: 15 September 2020

HMP Preston, a local men’s prison in Lancashire, was found by inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons to be severely overcrowded, with most prisoners locked in cells for most of the day and none having been released early in the COVID-19 period.

Published: 15 September 2020

HMP Whitemoor, a category A men’s prison in Cambridgeshire, was found by inspectors in a COVID-19 scrutiny visit to have increased time out of cell for prisoners more successfully than in many other prisons visited during the pandemic.

Published: 08 September 2020