Recommendation 24

We call on the Ministry of Justice to support prison leaders in designing and delivering regimes that prioritise time out of cell and engagement with purposeful activity alongside safety and order. The Department must work with prisons to ensure that they have sufficient staffing levels to unlock prisoners, facilitate purposeful activity, and ensure prisoners are attending classes. As the population pressures facing prisons begin to ease, we expect to see improvements in the purposeful activity scores received by each Welsh prison at their next inspection. (Recommendation, Paragraph 86)