Exeter inspection report 2023
Report for Exeter Prison
Summary
Exeter is a men’s reception prison with a small resettlement function that held 388 prisoners at the time of our inspection. It has had a troubled recent history and in 2018 was subjected to an urgent notification because of its inability to keep the prisoners in its care safe. Four years on, I am disappointed to report that things have not improved at anything like the rate that we would have expected. Although this report points to some small improvements and some potentially promising work, the levels of care, particularly for the most vulnerable, were still nowhere near good enough. As a result, I was left with no alternative but to invoke the urgent notification again, the first time this has happened in consecutive inspections of an adult prison. We were particularly concerned.