Recommendations 8 items · 1 repeated
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Addressee: Ministry of Justice · Topic: Resettlement
Recommendation (the Board's words)
The Board is concerned that, as a training and resettlement prison, the prison is failing to provide meaningful education, employment and training. This is made worse by the prison having a number of short-term prisoners arriving. Too many prisoners are released before completing their offending behaviour programmes and with no accommodation on release.
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Staffing · Repeated from a previous year
Recommendation (the Board's words)
As last year, staffing levels are a major concern, particularly as the number of prisoners increases. The continued loss of experienced officers means that there are fewer opportunities for mentoring when new recruits arrive, and too often they have to go straight into the front line, due to staff shortages.
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Education
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Education programmes have not improved during the reporting period, due to the lack of investment. Too few prisoners are enabled to access programmes to help them on release. During the year 50% of workshops stood empty due to the lack of instructors or any meaningful activities leading to qualifications to improve employment opportunities on release.
Addressee: HMPPS · Topic: Purposeful Activity
Recommendation (the Board's words)
There needs to be a complete overhaul of the use of the workshops and how they can better serve the needs of prisoners in terms of training and future employment.
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Regime
Recommendation (the Board's words)
Some free flow movement throughout the prison must be introduced to enable prisoners to access education, workshops and other activities.
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Regime
Recommendation (the Board's words)
The use of prisoners in helping to maintain the estate, like the decoration of some wings, was very successful and should be employed much more.
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Overcrowding
Recommendation (the Board's words)
The conversion of single cells to doubles needs to be monitored to ensure that prisoners’ health and wellbeing are not adversely affected.
Addressee: Governor / Director · Topic: Resettlement
Recommendation (the Board's words)
It is disappointing that, with the number of prisoners waiting for category D transfer, the prison still fails to provide release on temporary license (ROTL) opportunities, despite a number of local companies being interested.