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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.
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.
26 January 2026
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP & YOI Foston Hall by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (8–10 December 2025). Good or reasonable progress had been made in addressing all but one of the concerns raised at the January 2025 inspection. Prison officers’…
29 April 2025
Foston Hall opened as a women’s prison in 1997. It is set in the grounds of an old country house but contains a mix of accommodation types with a capacity of just over 300 prisoners. At this inspection 295 women were resident, and the prison…
27 September 2022
we found a deterioration in the regime and the provision of purposeful activity. Of greater concern, however, were the safety outcomes which we judged to be poor, our lowest assessment, with levels of violence was very high. There was far more frequent use of the…
9 February 2022
Foston Hall, in Derbyshire, is a women’s prison which, at the time of our inspection, was holding 272 residents, just short of its capacity of 296. In common with other women’s prisons, the establishment accommodates several categories of prisoner ranging from those recently remanded or…
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