Lincoln inspection report 2025
Report for Lincoln Prison
Summary
With a rating of reasonably good across all four of our healthy prison assessments, Lincoln is the best performing reception prison in the country. Levels of violence, drug ingress and self-harm are lower than comparators in a prison where a well-motivated staff team maintained good standards of behaviour and cleanliness on the wings. Turnover of staff was much lower than we see in other prisons and at the time of this inspection there were no officers in training. Led by capable custody managers, an experienced and competent team of officers know their prisoners well and deal quickly with any low-level rule breaking. Keywork, that is almost non-existent in many jails we inspect, was impressive at Lincoln. Prisoners appreciated the regular sessions from a named officer that helped to build relationships and deal with emerging issues.