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Prison Improvement Plans

The Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service are implementing improvement plans across the prison estate to address overcrowding, staffing shortages, rehabilitation programmes, and facility conditions. Recent action plans target specific prisons including Liverpool and Leicester, with broader concerns about purposeful activity, family visits, and inconsistent standards across prisons. This active policy responds to systemic challenges in prison operations and rehabilitation outcomes.

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2026

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29 Apr 2026 | Written question Ministry of Justice linked

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the findings of the European Committee of Social Rights on the UK’s compliance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the findings of the European Committee of Social Rights on the UK’s compliance with the European Social Charter in …

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15 Apr 2026 | Announcement Ministry of Justice linked

Strengthening prison releases

UIN: HCWS1518 On 27 February 2026, Dame Lynne Owens submitted to me her Independent Review into Releases in Error. I want to place on the record my personal thanks to Dame Lynne for the thoroughness of her findings and recommendations.I …

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2025

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12 May 2025 | Policy paper HM Prison and Probation Service Ministry of Justice linked

Wandsworth Prison: Action plan

HM Prison and Probation Service action plan for Wandsworth Prison in response to HM Inspectorate of Prisons inspection.

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↓ HMP Wandsworth action plan - August 2024 (18pp) ↓ HMP Wandsworth prison: action plan - January 2022 (19pp) ↓ Wandsworth prison: response to independent review of progre… (2pp)
14 Mar 2025 | Written evidence linked

Several stakeholders provided written evidence on how crowding and capacity pressures are impacting health and drug treatment in prisons.78 For example, HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) noted that the strain at some reception prisons are under means that prisoners do not always receive the required health assessments or safety interviews. It warned that this creates significant risks as many prisoners report feeling suicidal when they first arrive and have health problems, including drug and...

Several stakeholders provided written evidence on how crowding and capacity pressures are impacting health and drug treatment in prisons.78 For example, HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) noted that the strain at some reception prisons are under means that prisoners do …

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2024

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25 Jul 2024 | Announcement Ministry of Justice linked

Temporary closure of HMP Dartmoor

UIN: HLWS21 My Right Honourable Friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP) has today made the following statement:"I would like to announce the decision to close HMP Dartmoor temporarily, as His Majesty’s …

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13 May 2024 | Announcement Ministry of Justice linked

HMP Wandsworth Update

UIN: HCWS458 This statement concerns the HM Chief Inspector of Prison’s decision to invoke an Urgent Notification at HMP Wandsworth.In accordance with the Protocol between HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and the MoJ, the Chief Inspector, Charlie Taylor, wrote to …

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2022

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2021

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2020

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11 Sep 2020 | Written evidence linked

Deteriorating conditions within the prison estate have been a concern for many years. HM Inspectorate of Prisons (the Inspectorate) has consistently reported that many prisoners endure unsafe, poor and overcrowded living conditions. Between 2015–16 and 2019–20, the Inspectorate rated more than 40% of prisons it inspected as ‘poor’ or ‘not sufficiently good’ for safety.14 In their written evidence to us, stakeholders and academics also told us of the “dreadful … and often totally inappropriate...

Deteriorating conditions within the prison estate have been a concern for many years. HM Inspectorate of Prisons (the Inspectorate) has consistently reported that many prisoners endure unsafe, poor and overcrowded living conditions. Between 2015–16 and 2019–20, the Inspectorate rated more …

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11 Sep 2020 | Written evidence linked

We also received written evidence from the Prison Reform Trust, which told us that women continue to serve their sentences largely in prisons designed for men and in locations far from home.48 We were therefore concerned that there were no female prisons in Wales. HMPPS recognised that enabling offenders to keep in contact with their families was important. It told us that it tried to place women as close to their home as possible, but that this was difficult for offenders from Wales. It expl...

We also received written evidence from the Prison Reform Trust, which told us that women continue to serve their sentences largely in prisons designed for men and in locations far from home.48 We were therefore concerned that there were no …

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11 Sep 2020 | Written evidence linked

In its written evidence to us, The Prison Reform Trust asserted that there was nothing in the government’s planning, short or long term, which would better prepare the prison service for a future outbreak of COVID-19 or a similar pandemic. It told us that, in the immediate future, the prison service was likely to be in an even worse position should infection rates rise.73 We asked HMPPS what plans it had in place to ensure that it was as prepared as possible if there was a second wave. HMPPS ...

In its written evidence to us, The Prison Reform Trust asserted that there was nothing in the government’s planning, short or long term, which would better prepare the prison service for a future outbreak of COVID-19 or a similar pandemic. …

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2019

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2018

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