Ranby inspection report 2022
Report for Ranby Prison
Summary
As a result of concerted efforts by prison leaders, and with the use of better technology, Ranby, a category C training and resettlement prison in Nottinghamshire, was much safer jail than at our inspections in 2016 and 2018. The flow of drugs had been a chief cause of violence but had been stemmed with better perimeter security, use of dogs and body scanners. Leaders had taken advantage of the COVID-19 lockdowns to reset, focusing on breaking the cycle of violence. Our survey showed that prisoners felt much safer than they had at the time of our last inspection, and longer-serving staff members also said they were not experiencing anything like the levels of threat that they had suffered in the past. We saw improvements across all parts our safety test, for which the prison was awarded our highest grade, ‘good’, with fewer assaults on staff and prisoners, better oversight of the use of force, good planning, and provision in place to improve the behaviour of the most violent prisoners and care for the most vulnerable. Conditions in the prison were also gradually improving.