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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Official guide description: High security prison
Official guide · Checked 13 September 2026. This wording does not establish an A–D category.
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
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.
29 June 2026
While some healthy prison assessment scores had improved on this inspection, Isle of Wight continued to be a jail that significantly underperformed with a lack of meaningful incentives for the many prisoners who behave well, a poor regime, frequent staff shortages and insufficient suitable workshop…
10 July 2023
we found good or reasonable progress across all but one concern we raised. Plans to Report of an independent review of progress at HMP Isle of Wight 3 turn the Albany site into a dedicated environment more suited to category C prisoners had moved ahead…
17 January 2023
The Isle of Wight prison has existed in its current form since 2009, when historic Parkhurst was amalgamated with the adjacent Albany, an institution dating from the late 1960s. A third jail, Camphill, originally part of the cluster, subsequently closed and has now been decommissioned.…
14 February 2020
This independent review of progress at HMP Isle of Wight followed up 11 of the 35 recommendations from the 2019 inspection. Inspectors judged that three recommendations showed good progress, two showed reasonable progress, one showed insufficient progress and five showed no meaningful progress. Local management…
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