Wymott inspection report 2024
Report for Wymott Prison
Summary
HMP Wymott in Lancashire is a category C training prison with a large mixed population of 1,182 prisoners, of whom over half were convicted of a sexual offence. There had been a failure by senior leaders to invest in the prison. The kitchen was in a terrible state and the accommodation in house blocks A and B, which we criticised in our last two inspections, was now beyond repair. Some of the single cells that were holding two prisoners were unacceptably cramped, with an unscreened toilet in the corner and room for only one chair. Storm damage to the roof of one of the workshops meant that it was out of use, leaving too many prisoners without purposeful activity and subsequently high levels of boredom. Wymott was failing to fulfil its remit as a training prison, with many prisoners on the main site limited to a part-time regime.