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The 2021-22 annual report for HMP Leicester is now published.

Prisoners largely kept safe during the pandemic but were locked in their cells for up to 23 hours a day.

The following ministerial responses to annual reports are now available to view: Ministerial responses to reports published 2022: Bure 2020-21 Full Sutton 2020-21 Garth 2020-21 Kirkham 2021 Long Lartin 2021

The 2020-21 annual report for HMP Hull is now published.

In its annual report published today, the independent monitoring Board for London Heathrow and City Airports says that the Heathrow airport holding rooms are unsuitable for lengthy stays for adults and particularly for children.

Publishing its annual report for 2021, the independent monitoring board for Heathrow immigration removal centre says that the Home Office struggled to provide sufficient support for those detained there, who often felt frustrated and powerless as a result.

In its 2021 annual report, published today, the IMB’s Charter Flight Monitoring Team (CFMT) focuses on the inhumanity of confining people in vehicles for very long periods as they are transferred from immigration removal centres to the planes that will remove them from the UK.

The Gatwick IRC 2021 annual report is now published.

Publishing its annual report for 2021, when HMP Huntercombe was under a restricted regime because of Covid-19, the IMB at HMP Huntercombe welcomes progress in relation to phones and resettlement work, but continues to express concern about the number of foreign national prisoners who remain at Huntercombe after completing their sentences.

In its annual report for 2021-22, released today, the independent monitoring board (IMB) at HMP Lowdham Grange raises concerns about an increase in self-harm and assaults, associated with the continued restrictions on prison regimes, though it also commends the prison for mitigating Covid risks.