Rochester Prison Issued With Urgent Order to Improve Following Decade of Failure

Published on September 3, 2024

Rochester Prison has become the first category C jail to be issued with an urgent notification, following what His Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) described as a “decade of systemic failure and decline.” On Monday, HMIP said during its inspection of the Kent jail that it found widespread drug use, self-harm, decrepit conditions, and a lack of activities to prepare its inmates for release. HMP Rochester was inspected between Aug. 12 and 22, and inspectors said the review “was the latest in a decade of successively poor and declining inspections of the jail,” despite the prison having been warned about the watchdog’s concerns following a disappointing independent review of progress in 2022....

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