Prison
The frustrations of prison life
Prison inspectorate highlights that the inability to get things done is contributing to potentially harmful frustration among prisoners.
25th March 2025
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Prison inspectorate highlights that the inability to get things done is contributing to potentially harmful frustration among prisoners.
Prison inspectors say prisons are not doing enough to help women cope. For some this lack of care to meet their basic needs causes such distress that they resort to harming themselves.
Inspectorate says that children in custody are being failed by having to live in establishments dominated by violence, disorder and lack of education.
Prison inspectorate say it is a serious indictment of the Youth Custody Service that children continue to be held in solitary confinement.
During 2023-24, inspectors found more than two thirds of prisoners were spending most of their days in their cells with little to occupy them.
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Chief Prison Inspector talks of the appalling distress of seriously mentally ill prisoners who are stuck in prison waiting transfer to secure hospital.
More children on remand could be managed in the community.
Children in custody suffer big rises in violence and self-harm.
