Whitemoor inspection report 2023
Report for Whitemoor Prison
Summary
HMP Whitemoor is a category A prison that is part of the long-term, high-secure estate. At the time of our inspection, it held 315 men of whom 40% were category A and eight were high-risk category A. When we last inspected the prison in 2017, it was running well and was awarded scores of reasonably good in each of our healthy prison tests. It was very disappointing on this inspection to find it had declined in three out of our four tests. Staffing shortfalls were certainly a factor in this decline, but levels remained much higher than in most prisons. Despite being told multiple times that officers were too busy to attend to prisoners, we often came across them congregating in wing offices or standing in pairs on the wings talking to each other.