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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.
13 July 2026
we found at our last inspection At our previous inspections of HMP Featherstone in 2025 we made the following judgements . Figure 1: HMP Featherstone healthy prison outcomes in 2022 and 2025 At the last inspection, we found outcomes for prisoners had deteriorated and was…
12 January 2026
Located near Wolverhampton, HMP Featherstone is a category C training and resettlement prison holding 658 adult men at the time of inspection. The establishment holds prisoners principally from the West Midlands region, with a significant turnover of population. Many of those held were serving quite…
31 August 2022
Featherstone is a category C training prison near Wolverhampton that contained 661 prisoners at the time of our inspection. The impressive work leaders had undertaken to reduce the supply of drugs had led to large falls in violence, despite the regime being far more open…
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