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

Conditions for migrants detained on the Kent coast after arriving in small boats remain very poor despite Home Office assurances that they would make significant improvements, according to prisons inspectors and independent monitors.

Regimes and conditions for prisoners at HMP Dartmoor are being compromised by staff shortages and a lack of investment, following the decision to close the 300 year old prison within two years, says the prison’s independent monitoring board (IMB).

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

Releasing its annual report for 2020-1, the IMB at Wormwood Scrubs commends the considered and caring Covid-10 regime, which minimised outbreaks and infections, but notes that these restrictions may have contributed to the steep rise in acute mental health problems, so that it can now take four weeks, rather than one, for a routine mental health referral.

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

Please note that the following ministerial responses to reports published in November 2021 are now available to view Berwyn 2020 -21 annual report Coldingley 2020 -21 annual report Downview 2020 -21 annual report Erlestoke 2020 -21 annual report New Hall 2020 -21 annual report Peterborough 2020 -21 annual report Standford Hill 2020 -21 annual report Stokeheath 2020 -21 annual report Wakefield 2020 -21 annual report Woodhill 2020 -21 annual report Wymott 2020 -21 annual report

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

Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) closed on 23 July 2021 and the Board carried out independent monitoring duties throughout 2021 up to the closure date. The Board submitted a letter to the Minister with their findings for this period.

The 2020 annual report for the Immigration Detention Estate is now published.