Isis inspection report 2026
Report for Isis Prison
Summary
An experienced and innovative leadership team and an improved staffing situation had led to improvements at this South East London, category C prison that held 577 young men at the time of this inspection. With improvements from poor to not sufficiently good in both our purposeful activity and preparation for release tests, we were pleased to see progress in a prison that holds a volatile and risky population. The jail retained our top rating of good for respect and a rating of not sufficiently good for safety. At our last inspection, men with different London gang affiliations were held on different wings to prevent those in conflict from mixing. This had led to a highly restricted regime which fed, rather than addressed, the cycle of violence and retribution in which so many prisoners were trapped. The courageous governor had decided to introduce the ‘Peace Strategy’ which ended automatic, postcode-led placement and created a Peace spur for those who wished to serve their sentences away from the conflict that had been such a hallmark of the prison.