A new HMI Prisons report released today highlights the crucial role of families in encouraging better behaviour and safer prisons: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/ins…
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How do prisons create cultures that encourage prisoners to make better use of their time in custody?

Our new thematic review 'Improving behaviour in prisons' explores this.

Read the report here: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/ins…

And see our media release: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/med…

'At a time when the picture in prisons is especially bleak, it is good to remember that some truly impressive work is done in the most difficult of circumstances.'

Read our response to HMI Prisons thematic review on behaviour: howardleague.org/news/hope-and-…

'Giving people purpose, responsibility, incentives, and the opportunity to build trust, are the best routes to achieving safer prisons and supporting people away from crime.'
Read our full response to today's HMI Prisons report at prisonreformtrust.org.uk/prt-comment-im…

In two short weeks the UK NPM will be together again for its Annual Conference and 15th anniversary!

We have a lot to share from the year just gone and for the year ahead

Find out more about all 21 NPM members here: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/members/

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Our report on HMP Five Wells, published today, found that 30% of prisoners tested positive for drugs in random tests in the latest of a series of inspections finding worrying levels of drug use.

Read Charlie Taylor's recent blog on the resurgence of drugs in prisons.

Our researchers are conducting a survey at HMP/YOI Hollesley Bay, at the start of a full inspection. If you have information about the prison, please email: [email protected]

Read about full inspections: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/abo

HMP Wymott: easy availability of drugs, prisoners becoming addicted during their sentences, not enough in the way of security to reduce supply or treatment to reduce demand. And of course Dickensian squalor. justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/ins…

Inmates at a Lancashire prison are developing drug problems after being jailed because of long waiting times for mental health services, a report has found. dlvr.it/T50Hw8 Full story 👇

From today's HMI Prisons report on HMP Wymott:

'Significant roof damage had resulted in the closure of most of the workshops for prisoners living on the main wings'.

The prison estate is literally falling apart.

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