Channings Wood inspection report 2022
Report for Channings Wood Prison
Summary
HMP Channings Wood is a category C training and resettlement prison near Newton Abbot in Devon. Just over a third of the 662 prisoners held at the time of our inspection had been convicted of an offence of a sexual nature. The clearer sense of purpose for the prison and the evidence of progress we found during this visit was encouraging. Assessed as being not sufficiently good against all four of our healthy prison tests at recent inspections, we judged that outcomes had improved and were now reasonably good for safety, respect and rehabilitation and release planning. Although our judgement of purposeful activity remained not sufficiently good, the governor had an impressive and ambitious vision for the prison, coupled with a credible pandemic recovery plan. His passion and strong commitment to deliver on the prison’s training and resettlement purpose was underpinned by a commendable personal pledge to equip properly every prisoner leaving Channings Wood for a successful release.