Lindholme inspection report 2023
Report for Lindholme Prison
Summary
Lindholme is a category C training prison that sprawls across a large, open site in South Yorkshire. At our last inspection in 2017, the biggest challenge facing the prison was the ingress of drugs. I am sorry to report that this problem has remained every bit as serious and continues to affect outcomes in many areas. Half of the prisoners in our survey told us it was easy to get drugs and, most concerningly, 21% said they had developed a problem since coming to the jail. As well as being the cause of most deaths at the prison in recent years, drugs had also been responsible for debt problems that drove the higher than average and increasing levels of violence. The size of the site meant that drones were often able to fly in contraband undetected and there was no routine searching of staff or X-ray machines at the gate.