IMB members are independent, unpaid and work an average of 3-4 visits per month. Their role is to monitor the day-to-day life in their local prison or removal centre and ensure that proper standards of care and decency are maintained. To see a map of prison establishments use the Prison Finder
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Inside every prison, immigration removal centre and some short term holding facilities at airports, there is an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – a group of ordinary members of the public doing an extraordinary job.
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Large number of elderly prisoners at HMP Littlehey leads IMB to call for a new strategy for older offenders
At HMP Littlehey, a male sex offender training prison in Cambridgeshire, 42% of prisoners are over 50 years old. Although Littlehey has a very high number of deaths in custody (10 in the past year, the fourth highest in the country) these were all from natural causes, reflecting the older prisoner population. Meeting the needs … Read more >
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2016 IMB Isle of Wight annual report published today
Read the report in full here.
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2016-17 IMB Low Newton annual report published today
Read the report in full here.