Ranby inspection report 2025
Report for Ranby Prison
Summary
The influx of drones bringing large amounts of contraband into this East Midlands, category C prison was affecting outcomes for prisoners in many areas. Illicit drugs were the cause of poor attendance to activities and levels of violence that were now higher than most similar prisons. This led to a fall in our healthy prison assessment for “safety” from good to not sufficiently good. With the random drug test results showing a positive rate of 23% and staggeringly, nearly a quarter of prisoners in our survey saying they had developed a drug or alcohol problem since they had been at the jail, there will need to be concerted action by the leadership and the prison service to make Ranby as safe as it was when we last inspected in 2022. Outcomes for prisoners at Ranby depended very much on where they were housed. The 700 living on houseblocks one to three and five had a pretty bleak existence, living in accommodation that was now badly dilapidated, and with many cells lacking basic furniture and almost no self-cook facilities.