Tag: HMP Coldingley

HMP Coldingley is a training and resettlement prison, with a remit to help prisoners develop new skills and be better prepared for release into the community. In its 2024-25 annual report (published 30 September 2025) the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) reports on how the national capacity crisis has led to overcrowding, which has negatively affected the regime at Coldingley, making it difficult for the prison to fulfil its brief. The constant churn of prisoners has also impacted the strong sense of community previously found at Coldingley.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Coldingley for reporting year 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2025.

Letter from Lord James Timpson MP, Minister of State for Justice, in response to the Coldingley 2023-24 annual report.

Increased pressure on the prison system has led to some prisoners being transferred to HMP Coldingley before they're ready for its category C regime, which is focused on training and resettlement. This churn of prisoners and instability has resulted in a sharp increase in violence.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Coldingley for reporting year 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024.

Letter from Damian Hinds MP, Minister of State for Justice, in response to the Coldingley 2022-23 annual report.

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.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Coldingley for reporting year 1 August 2022 – 31 July 2023.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Coldingley for reporting year 1 August 2021 – 31 July 2022.