Hull inspection report 2024
Report for Hull Prison
Summary
Hull is an unusually constituted prison; it serves mainly as a remand jail, but also holds a longer-term population of prisoners convicted of sexual offences. Since we last inspected in 2021, because of the effects of the population crisis, the balance of the prison had changed, with 48% of prisoners on remand or unsentenced arriving from across the North of England. Despite this change, which had greatly increased the churn of prisoners, we found a prison that had improved to reasonably good in our safety, respect and preparation for release tests. Disappointingly however, the provision of purposeful activity had declined and was rated as poor. While there was not the level of drugs ingress that we see in many prisons, in recent months random testing had shown an increase in positive results and, in our survey, 40% of prisoners told us it was easy to get drugs in the jail. Repeated bids from the governor for better gate security and grilles on the outward-facing windows had not led to more funding.