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HMP Hewell is an improving prison that has coped well with the challenges of the pandemic and faces the future with a significant degree of optimism and potential.

In its annual report 2020-2021 on HM Young Offender Institution Werrington, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) reports that it considered Werrington such an unsafe environment that it escalated its concerns to both the Executive Director of the Youth Custody Service and the Director General for Prisons in July 2021.

The 2020-21 annual report for HMP The Verne is now published.

The 2020-21 annual reports for HMP Parc and YOI Parc are now published.

The 2020-21 annual report for HMP Aylesbury is now published.

Conditions for migrants detained on the Kent coast after arriving in small boats remain very poor despite Home Office assurances that they would make significant improvements, according to prisons inspectors and independent monitors.

Regimes and conditions for prisoners at HMP Dartmoor are being compromised by staff shortages and a lack of investment, following the decision to close the 300 year old prison within two years, says the prison’s independent monitoring board (IMB).

The 2020-21 annual report for HMP Brinsford is now published.

Releasing its annual report for 2020-1, the IMB at Wormwood Scrubs commends the considered and caring Covid-10 regime, which minimised outbreaks and infections, but notes that these restrictions may have contributed to the steep rise in acute mental health problems, so that it can now take four weeks, rather than one, for a routine mental health referral.