Northumberland inspection report 2022
Report for Northumberland Prison
Summary
An amalgamation of the former Acklington and Castington prisons, HMP Northumberland is a large category C training and resettlement prison. Two years after the merger, in 2013, the prison’s operation was contracted out to the private company, Sodexo. An expansive site comprising a range of different accommodation types, the prison holds in excess of 1300 adult men, a significant proportion of whom have been convicted of sexual offences. This was our first inspection of Northumberland since 2017. We found outcomes for prisoners in our healthy prison tests of safety and respect to be reasonably good, a recognition in part that the prison is now safer than it was five years ago. At this visit, we were more concerned and resettlement services.