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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer/Resettlement
Ministry of Justice performance classification. This describes the stated performance year, not a current A–D category or the categories of every prisoner.
Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026
Operational capacity is the capacity reported for this prison in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
2 June 2025
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Erlestoke by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 22–24 April 2025. There were encouraging signs of progress: overall levels of violence were now lower than in similar prisons, there had been some good work to address antisocial…
16 September 2024
Erlestoke, in rural Wiltshire, is a category C prison for men serving sentences of over 10 years that held 503 prisoners at the time of this inspection. At our last inspection in 2021, we were concerned enough by our findings to come back to the…
5 July 2022
we found little improvement, and, indeed, deterioration in the areas covered by our ‘respect’ healthy prison test. Frustration among prisoners was linked to rising levels of violence and of self-harm, as well as to an unduly impoverished regime. Leadership was not strong and many of…
7 December 2021
HMP Erlestoke is a category C training and resettlement prison near Devizes in Wiltshire. Holding just over 440 adult men the prison fulfils an important function with most prisoners serving long sentences of over four years and nearly twothirds assessed as high or very high…
22 September 2020
Overall, this was a very troubling visit, and if this had been a full inspection as part of our normal inspection programme, I would have given serious consideration as to whether the Urgent Notification procedure should be invoked. Instead, following the published methodology for Scrutiny…
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