Full Sutton inspection report 2024

Summary

Full Sutton is a men’s category A prison in Yorkshire that holds a long-term population, including a small number of very risky prisoners. Under a capable governor and a good leadership team the prison was doing a solid job in performing its main functions to protect the public and reduce prisoners’ levels of risk. This was reflected in our reasonably good scores for the healthy prison tests of safety, respect and preparation for release. Our score for purposeful activity had, however, deteriorated to not sufficiently good. The jail was mostly safe and although violence was fairly rare it had increased since our last inspection, as had the use of force, the scrutiny of which was not good enough. We found that the prison could not always justify the use of PAVA incapacitant spray, particularly in one very poor example when it was used on a disabled man.

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