Lancaster Farms inspection report 2022
Report for Lancaster Farms Prison
Summary
Built just outside the city of Lancaster in 1993, HMP Lancaster Farms has fulfilled several functions in its comparatively short history, and now serves as a category C resettlement prison, which has capacity for 560 adult men in a modern and reasonably well-appointed prison campus with six residential units. In keeping with the very reasonable built environment, the grounds are also open and very well maintained, something which boosts prisoners’ sense of well-being. Overall, this was an encouraging inspection. Although outcomes in purposeful activity needed to improve radically, our findings showed that a score of ‘reasonably good’ had been sustained in our two of our healthy prison tests, safety and respect, while outcomes in rehabilitation and release planning had improved and were now also ‘reasonably good’. We described the prison culture as positive, safe, and respectful, and one which encouraged good behaviour. In our survey, for example, prisoners expressed positive views friendly staff-prisoner interactions.