Recommendations 12 items
Recommendations were extracted from the report by AI, and responses and their status from the ministerial response by AI. Each recommendation shows whether its wording has been checked against the report.
Addressee: Ministry of Justice · Topic: Overcrowding
Recommendation (the Board's words)
What measures is the Minister planning to take to reduce overcrowding in the prison system, in light of the fact that the prison estate nationally is almost at capacity and projected to increase still further before additional spaces become available under the Government’s prison building programme?
Addressee: Ministry of Justice · Topic: Resettlement
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will the Minister commit to provide more funding to HMPPS to allow for an increase in the provision of resettlement services within establishments with a high remand population, given the crucial importance of these to reducing reoffending?
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Overcrowding
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will HMPPS give assurance that the population of Pentonville will not be increased beyond the Operational Capacity of 1,205 notwithstanding increasing population pressures across the prison estate?
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Estate
Recommendation (the Board's words)
When will action be taken to review the performance by GFSL of its contractual obligations? Its continued poor performance means that conditions for prisoners are neither decent nor humane, and are becoming increasingly less so every year.
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Regime
Recommendation (the Board's words)
A move from full to part-time education and activities during the reporting year increased the number of spaces available to the prisoners. However, for the rest of the day they only have an hour out of cell, and those not engaged in education or activities spend 23 hours a day locked up with nothing to do. Will HMPPS commit to providing the necessary resources for the Governor to provide sufficient full-time purposeful activity spaces for the population?
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Safety
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will HMPPS commit to the expediting of the transfer of sentenced vulnerable prisoners from Pentonville to other more suitable establishments, where they can be kept safe and have access to offence-based courses?
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Other
Recommendation (the Board's words)
The new Prisoners’ Property Framework seems to have had no noticeable positive impact on the transfer of property between prisons. Will HMPPS commit to a meaningful, evidence-based review of the Framework?
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Regime
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will you commit to a detailed review of the structure of the regime in order to provide more time out of cell for those prisoners who do not attend either education or activities?
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Other
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will you undertake a comprehensive overhaul of property systems at Pentonville to ensure that they work effectively to enable prisoners to receive their property in a timely manner (and to avoid the unnecessary waste of staff time)?
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Resettlement
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will you commit to, at a minimum, ensuring that a system is established whereby applications to the Offender Management Unit are logged electronically and an acknowledgement slip sent to prisoners, in the same way as has been done in healthcare?
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Safety
Recommendation (the Board's words)
What additional measures will you take to ensure the safety and access to activities of vulnerable prisoners who, due to a lack of space on the vulnerable prisoners’ unit, are housed separately?
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Staffing
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Will you commit to renewing the focus on key work to ensure that all prisoners can benefit from the valuable personal contact that this brings?