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IMB members are independent, unpaid and work an average of 2-3 visits per month. Their role is to monitor the day-to-day life in their local prison or removal centre and ensure that prisoners and detainees are treated fairly and humanely. To see a map of prison establishments use the Prison Finder
Read more about usBoard reporting during Covid-19
Boards continue to monitor both prisons and immigration detention during the current pandemic. In 2020 and early 2021, much of this has necessarily been remote monitoring, though where it is safe and possible to do so, more boards are now returning to face to face visits. Board findings have been reported to ministers and to the Justice Select Committee as well as through annual reports, including the impact of the pandemic on prisoners and detainees.
Learn more >Latest news
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Dungavel IRC 2020 annual report published
The 2020 annual report for Dungavel IRC is now published.
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Delay in implementing Covid-19 safety precautions
Still no decision by the Home Office to allow people detained at the airport to have access to their own prescribed medication The Board monitors and reports on the treatment and welfare of people in immigration detention at the two airports and the immigration reporting centres at Becket House and Eaton House. In their … Read more >
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Prisons and the Pandemic: Lessons for the Future – blog piece
“For prisons, like the rest of society, #COVID has been a stress-test” as a guest speaker at the Modernising Criminal Justice virtual conference on 23 June, National Chair, Anne Owers was asked to write a blog piece. For a really fascinating insight into prisons and the pandemic, please read her piece here.