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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Reception
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.
15 September 2025
Situated near Redditch in Worcestershire, HMP Hewell is a busy reception prison that continues to face significant challenges. With capacity for 1,094, at the time of our inspection it was holding just over 1,000 men. Most, some 63%, were on remand or awaiting sentence. A…
18 December 2023
we found at our last inspection 1.3 At our previous inspections of HMP Hewell in 2019 and 2022 we made the following judgements . Figure 1: HMP Hewell healthy prison outcomes in 2022* * Rehabilitation and release planning became ‘preparation for release’ in October 2023.…
20 March 2023
Hewell is a men’s category B reception prison serving the West Midlands that held 923 men at the time of our inspection, half of whom were unsentenced. When we last inspected in 2019, the prison was in a mess, with high levels of violence and…
15 September 2020
The severely curtailed regime at the start of the restrictions was understandable but almost five months had passed and there had been little progress in ensuring that prisoners had sufficient time out of cell or purposeful activity. This contributed to prisoners’ frustration and potentially to…
15 September 2020
The severely curtailed regime at the start of the restrictions was understandable but almost five months had passed and there had been little progress in ensuring that prisoners had sufficient time out of cell or purposeful activity. This contributed to prisoners’ frustration and potentially to…
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