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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer
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 2026
A former RAF base near Doncaster, HMP Lindholme is a large category C training prison holding just under 1,000 men, and comprising a mixture of old, re-purposed RAF accommodation and more modern but run-down cell blocks. Since we last visited, the prison had experienced considerable…
15 July 2024
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Lindholme by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (13-15 May 2024) Lindholme failed to address the three main concerns of the last inspection: drugs, sentence progression and education, training and work. Key work had barely improved, many…
24 October 2023
Lindholme is a category C training prison that sprawls across a large, open site in South Yorkshire. At our last inspection in 2017, the biggest challenge facing the prison was the ingress of drugs. I am sorry to report that this problem has remained every…
1 December 2020
The day-to-day frustrations reported to us by prisoners and the impact of the severe regime restrictions were too often exacerbated by a lack of meaningful engagement with staff. While we saw some good staff-prisoner interactions, in our survey only 64% of prisoners said that staff…
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