North Sea Camp inspection report 2023

Summary

North Sea Camp is a small, open prison on the Lincolnshire coast near Boston. Holding up to 300 adult prisoners, more than half of those in residence had been convicted of a sexual offence. This was our first inspection of the prison since 2017, and we again found an institution that was very safe, with reasonably good or good outcomes against all our healthy prison tests. New prisoners were received well into the prison and violence was very rare. The mix of those convicted of sexual offences with other prisoners raised some low-level issues, but leaders were not complacent in their efforts to keep the prison calm and well-ordered. All other aspects of safety were encouraging; absconds and temporary release failures were very infrequent and compared favourably with other open prisons.

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