Erlestoke inspection report 2021
Report for Erlestoke Prison
Summary
HMP Erlestoke is a category C training and resettlement prison near Devizes in Wiltshire. Holding just over 440 adult men the prison fulfils an important function with most prisoners serving long sentences of over four years and nearly twothirds assessed as high or very high risk of harm to others. prisoners serving life - and the prison also held young adults. Part of the establishment’s remit was to provide a national resource for offending behaviour programmes. The prison itself was a campus-style establishment with different accommodation types set in the grounds of a former country house. The prison held a challenging but generally stable population but had many advantages, not least its clarity of purpose and a group of prisoners who knew they would need to engage fully with their sentence objectives and the regime of the prison if they were to progress.