Highpoint inspection report 2024
Report for Highpoint Prison
Summary
Highpoint is a large category C training and resettlement prison in rural Suffolk, holding just under 1,300 adult men. It is located at an old RAF station on two separate, adjacent sites, bisected by a main road. Many of the old RAF buildings remain, although newer accommodation blocks have been added since the prison opened in the late 1970s. When we last inspected in 2019, we found a safe and respectful institution that provided a reasonable regime, but which needed to do more to support prisoners as they progressed through their sentence toward release. At this inspection, our findings were similar, despite the challenges of recent years. Outcomes in our healthy prison test of safety remained reasonably good, and they were good for respect.