Hindley inspection report 2024
Report for Hindley Prison
Summary
Located near Wigan, and almost equidistant between Liverpool and Manchester, Hindley is a category C training and resettlement prison for up to 600 adult and young adult men, of whom. With approximately 60 new arrivals a month, the prison manages a considerable turnover of prisoners, although others are more established and serving significant sentences. The population includes a substantial number of prisoners on licence recall, as well as many with known links to organised criminal gangs. This was our first full inspection of the jail since 2017, when we found outcomes to be not sufficiently good in our tests of safety and respect, poor in purposeful activity and reasonably good in rehabilitation and release planning. At this inspection our assessments remained unchanged against all four of our healthy prison tests. That is not to say that the leadership were not doing their best.