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

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

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

The 2024 annual report for Dungavel House IRC is now published.

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

Today (27 October 2025) Elisabeth Davies, National Chair of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), wrote to the Minister of State for Prisons, Lord Timpson, to raise serious concerns about the current trajectory of use of force practices across the prison estate and the implications of recent expansions to the weapons available to prison officers.

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

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

The 2024-25 annual report for Buckley Hall is now published.

The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Swaleside has raised concerns about high levels of violence and the widespread availability of illicit substances in its 2024-25 annual report (published 14 October 2025). The Board reports that a significant proportion of prison officers have less than one year’s experience, which has adversely affected staff-prisoner relationships and undermined the stability of the prison regime.