Prison

Feltham Prison and Young Offender Institution

Category and function

A–D category: Not yet verified.

Feltham B predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer/Resettlement · Source

This classification applies to the named part, not the whole shared unit.

Capacity and population

Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026

Shared figures: Feltham A and Feltham B. The Ministry of Justice reports these establishments together. These figures cover the whole shared unit and are not a separate count for this prison.

476Combined population
553Combined operational capacity

Operational capacity is the combined capacity reported for this shared unit in the same monthly bulletin.

Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication

Address and location

HMYOI Feltham
Bedfont Road
Feltham
Middlesex
TW13 4ND

Prison site location
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.

Independent reports

HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports

Feltham inspection report 2026

10 August 2026

HM Inspectorate surveyed children at Feltham A on 18 May 2026. The population was 74; questionnaires were given to 69 children and 54 were completed, a 78% response rate. Five children could not be included because four were at court and one was on release…

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Feltham inspection report 2025

1 December 2025

This inspection of HMP Feltham B was the first since the prison’s re-designation as a category C adult male establishment following many years operating as a young offender institute (YOI). This transition was not helped by a failure on the part of HMMPS to plan…

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Feltham inspection report 2025

26 August 2025

While the scores for our healthy prison assessments had not changed – poor for ‘safety’ and ‘purposeful activity’, and reasonably good for ‘care’ and ‘resettlement' – inspectors left with some optimism that things at this West London, under-18 YOI were beginning to improve after a…

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Feltham inspection report 2024

30 September 2024

HM Inspectorate surveyed children at HMYOI Feltham A on 30 September 2024. The population was 113; questionnaires were given to 99 children and 81 were completed, an 82% response rate. The report presents the full responses and compares them with other young offender institutions surveyed…

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Feltham inspection report 2024

16 July 2024

At our 2022 inspection of HMYOI Feltham A, we awarded some of the best healthy establishment test scores achieved in recent years at this west London jail. It was disappointing to return to find there had been a deterioration in standards with levels of violence…

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Feltham inspection report 2023

25 April 2023

Feltham B is a YOI in west London for 18–21-year-olds that shares a site with the neighbouring under-18s facility. It contained 307 prisoners at the time of our inspection, a capacity that was reduced by the closure of three units. In the next year the…

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Feltham inspection report 2022

14 June 2022

Our inspection of Feltham A in 2019 revealed “a dramatic and precipitous collapse in standards”. The prison had become so violent and chaotic that my predecessor decided to invoke the urgent notification (UN) process – the first time it had been used in a children’s…

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Feltham scrutiny visit 2021

23 March 2021

HMYOI Feltham A is an establishment in West London that holds children aged 15 to 18. It is jointly managed with an adjacent establishment, Feltham B, which holds young adults. At the time of our last full inspection of Feltham A in July 2019, outcomes…

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Official prison information