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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Category B
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
Shared figures: Grendon Prison and Spring Hill Prison. The Ministry of Justice reports these establishments together. These figures cover the whole shared unit and are not a separate count for this prison.
Operational capacity is the combined capacity reported for this shared unit in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
Shared site reference: Grendon and Spring Hill
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
14 August 2023
Under the leadership of the excellent governor, Grendon, a therapeutic community in Buckinghamshire, continued to be a unique, pioneering jail. Prisoners, many of whom were serving indeterminate or life sentences and who had extremely troubled pasts, made remarkable progress in an environment in which therapy…
13 April 2021
Although Grendon was not able to offer the structured therapy that formed the core of its offending behaviour work, other essential sentence management work, such as parole assessments and recategorisation reviews, had continued throughout the period of restrictions. Leaders and staff at Grendon had responded…
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