Prison

Huntercombe Prison

Category and function

A–D category: Not yet verified.

Predominant function (2025/26): Category C Foreign National

Ministry of Justice performance classification. This describes the stated performance year, not a current A–D category or the categories of every prisoner.

Capacity and population

Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026

493Population
520Operational capacity

Operational capacity is the capacity reported for this prison in the same monthly bulletin.

Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication

Address and location

HMP Huntercombe
Nuffield
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
RG9 5SB

Prison site location
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.

Independent reports

HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports

Huntercombe inspection report 2023

13 November 2023

Huntercombe, in Oxfordshire is a category C prison that held 468 foreign national prisoners at the time of our inspection. When we last inspected in 2017, apart from in our rehabilitation and release planning test, where we awarded our lowest score, the prison was doing…

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Huntercombe scrutiny visit 2021

19 January 2021

should not have been sanctioned by the prison for refusing to sign immigration paperwork. This also confused the prison’s role, in managing and caring for prisoners, with Home Office procedures. Equality and diversity management structures were in place and good work had been carried out…

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Official prison information