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In its latest annual report, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Peterborough expresses concern about the number of prisoners showing signs of acute mental illness. If these individuals had been diverted into appropriate healthcare provision under the Mental Health Act, their treatment is likely to have been considerably more humane than a prison can provide.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP Whatton is now published.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP Birmingham is now published.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP/YOI Stoke Heath is now published.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP Wymott is now published.

Conditions in HMP Wandsworth reflect the failures of the prison system as a whole. In its latest annual report, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of HMP Wandsworth reports no real progress in resolving problems caused by years of underinvestment in the fabric, facilities and staff at the prison.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP Lincoln is now published.

The 2022 annual report for HMP Liverpool is now published.

The 2022-23 annual report for HMP Whitemoor is now published.

Over half of the prisoner population at HMP Coldingley still live in cramped unimproved wings built in the 1960s, lacking in-cell sinks and toilets that are standard in nearly all other prisons. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Coldingley in Surrey have been shocked at the worsening and unhygienic state of its decrepit sanitation.