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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Official guide description: Open prison
Official guide · Checked 13 September 2026. This wording does not establish an A–D category.
Predominant function (2025/26): Open
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.
1 September 2025
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Kirkham by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons 28–30 July 2025. Although leaders had taken vital steps to improve the drug strategy, it was yet to have an impact. The proportion of positive random mandatory drug tests…
10 December 2024
Kirkham has had a difficult two years, with interventions to reduce the national prison population crisis having disrupted the normal running of this Lancashire open jail. The temporary presumptive recategorisation scheme (TPRS), which saw a large influx of category C prisoners with only a few…
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