Category and function
A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Female
Ministry of Justice performance classification. This describes the stated performance year, not a current A–D category or the categories of every prisoner.
Address and location
HMP/YOI Eastwood Park
Falfield
Wotton-under-Edge
Gloucestershire
GL12 8DBPrison site location
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
Independent reports
HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports
22 September 2025
Eastwood Park held 360 women from a wide catchment area across England and South Wales. The governor had successfully argued for the regrading of this South Gloucestershire jail as a ‘complex prison’; a decision that will, I hope, mean the establishment loses fewer managers to…
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12 October 2023
We found that safety had declined considerably, and we gave our lowest judgement of poor. Purposeful activity had also declined. Outcomes under the respect test remained reasonably good and those under the resettlement test had improved slightly. Figure 1: HMP/YOI Eastwood Park healthy prison outcomes…
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3 February 2023
Eastwood Park is a women’s prison in Gloucestershire that held 348 prisoners at the time of our inspection. Like the other closed prisons in the women’s estate, it holds a range of prisoners from those on remand to others who are serving indeterminate sentences or…
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