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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Female
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.
A more recent monthly snapshot has not been verified. These dated figures have been retained.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
24 February 2026
This busy County Durham prison held 267 women, including those serving long sentences, on remand or on short recalls. Our scores of good for our safety, respect and preparation for release, and reasonably good for purposeful activity, reflect a well-run, decent prison whose success was…
7 September 2021
HMP & YOI Low Newton is a woman’s local and resettlement prison that services the courts across a large swathe of northern England. At inspection, it held 229 women with 45 unsentenced and the rest sentenced to anything from a few months to life. The…
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