Tag: HMP Wandsworth

The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Wandsworth is pleased to note in its 2024-25 annual report (published 10 October 2025), that positive new leadership and a sense of strategic direction has enabled the prison to begin to address long-term problems.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wandsworth for reporting year 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2025.

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

The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Wandsworth today (22 August 2024) publishes its 2023-24 annual report. This was another very difficult year, with prison management again constrained by staff absence and hindered by underfunding and lack of support from the prison service. Acceptable levels of decency were not met and exercise, education and meaningful activities were curtailed. For much of the reporting year, men had to choose between exercise, showering, or other housekeeping during the brief periods each day when they were allowed out of their cells.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wandsworth for reporting year 1 June 2023 to 31 May 2024.

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

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.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wandsworth for reporting year 1 June 2022 to 31 May 2023.

Letter from Damian Hinds MP, Minister of State for Justice, in response to the Wandsworth 2021-22 annual report.

Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wandsworth for reporting year 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2022.