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The 2024-25 annual report for HMP Altcourse is now published.

The 2024-25 annual report for Scotland and Northern Ireland STHF is now published.

The 2024-25 annual report for HMP Birmingham is now published.

The 2024-25 annual report for HMP Wormwood Scrubs is now published.

In July 2023 the Chief Inspector of Prisons declared HMP Bristol ‘one of the most unsafe prisons in the country’. The 2024-2025 annual report from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Bristol (published 11 December 2025), draws attention to the areas of sustained improvement observed in the prison, while highlighting the ongoing concerns that the Board still has.

Despite the Independent Monitoring Board’s (IMB) 2023 thematic report warning that women in acute mental distress were being imprisoned due to a chronic shortage of secure psychiatric hospital beds, two years later the IMB’s 2024–25 annual report for HMP/YOI Bronzefield (published 10 December 2025) highlights that these serious concerns remain largely unresolved.

The 2024-25 annual report for HMP/YOI Portland is now published.

The 2024-25 annual report for HMP/YOI Brinsford is now published.

The Gatwick IRC 2024 annual report is now published.

A rise in the number of young adults at high security HMP Belmarsh is taking a toll on staff and other prisoners, according to the prison’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) in its annual report, published on the 29 of November 2025.