Lindholme scrutiny visit 2020
Report for Lindholme Prison
Summary
The day-to-day frustrations reported to us by prisoners and the impact of the severe regime restrictions were too often exacerbated by a lack of meaningful engagement with staff. While we saw some good staff-prisoner interactions, in our survey only 64% of prisoners said that staff treated them with respect. A light-touch key worker system had been introduced since March, but many prisoners said that it was not working well. In our survey, only around a quarter of prisoners said that a member of staff had asked them in the last week how they were getting on. Equality work had also suffered during the period of restrictions, but there was good management attention to any evidence of possible discrimination. In our survey, prisoners from a black or minority ethnic background were more negative respect.