Prescoed inspection report 2021

Summary

Usk and Prescoed, as the names suggest, are two distinct prisons, although managed as a single entity. Usk is a small establishment built in a traditional 19th century style which held 220 category C prisoners, almost all of whom were serving sentences for sexual offences. Prescoed is an open prison in a deeply rural setting during our inspection. In recent years the Inspectorate has routinely reported very positively on the outcomes experienced by prisoners at the two sites and this remains the case. Making separate healthy prison assessments, we judged outcomes in safety and respect to be good (our highest mark) at both Usk and Prescoed and reasonably good or better at both for purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning. These are excellent results made more noteworthy in that they were achieved while the prisons were still emerging from the effects of the pandemic.

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