A new report finds HMYOI Werrington, a young offender institution in Staffordshire, to be improving in many areas, with good care for the children detained, but high levels of violence remain a challenge.
An enhanced inspection approach, used when inspectors returned to Brook House Immigration Removal Centre at Gatwick nearly two years after a covert BBC film showed apparent abuse by staff, found no evidence of an abusive culture amonfg the present staff.
HMP Exeter, holding more than 400 men from across the south west of England, was found by inspectors to be “very violent”, with widespread illicit drug use and poor living conditions apparently regarded by staff as normal.
Responding to the inspectiob report on HMP& YOI Styal, INQUEST has called on the government to reduce the number of women in prison and redirect resources to welfare, health, housing and social care.
Derbyshire Constabulary custody was not delivered to the standards required, with some poor outcomes for detainees, according to criminal justice inspectors.
The Prison Reform Trust has commented on the urgent notification issued today by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) over safety concerns at HMP Birmingham.
Inspectors found a mix of “positive and negative features” in the treatment of 34 people escorted from the UK to Pakistan on a Home Office-chartered immigration removal flight.