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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.
27 May 2025
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Hull by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 14–16 April 2025. The hard work of leaders was beginning to pay off, but problems persisted in some areas. Although the prison remained overcrowded, leaders were trying to improve…
30 September 2024
Hull is an unusually constituted prison; it serves mainly as a remand jail, but also holds a longer-term population of prisoners convicted of sexual offences. Since we last inspected in 2021, because of the effects of the population crisis, the balance of the prison had…
26 April 2022
we found most prisoners locked in their cells for 23 Report of an independent review of progress at HMP Hull 3 hours a day, which was worse than we had seen in similar prisons. Offender management had also deteriorated, with very poor contact between prison-based…
2 November 2021
HMP Hull is a large, inner-city male establishment holding just under 1,000 prisoners. A prison of two halves, the four older wings date from the late 19th century, with the remainder built in the early part of the 21st century. The older wings act as…
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