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Peterborough Male predominant function (2025/26): Reception · Source
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Peterborough Female predominant function (2025/26): Female · Source
This classification applies to the named part, not the whole shared unit.
Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026
Shared figures: Peterborough male and female prisons. The Ministry of Justice reports these establishments together. These figures cover the whole shared unit and are not a separate count for this prison.
Operational capacity is the combined capacity reported for this shared unit in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
25 November 2024
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Peterborough (Men) by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (21–23 October 2024) A lack of funding to install netting over exercise yards and make other improvements to security undermined leaders’ efforts to stop drugs getting in, so…
9 April 2024
HM Prison Peterborough, operated by Sodexo, is a reception and resettlement prison serving Eastern England. A modern facility, the prison opened in 2005 and is capable of holding 944 adult men, although just 906 were on the roll during this inspection. Peterborough also has an…
26 February 2024
HMP YOI Peterborough opened in 2005 and since that time, has operated under contract managed by the private company, Sodexo. Following a modern and spacious design, the site houses a large men’s prison and a separate women’s facility, holding up to 392 women from a…
20 April 2021
The regime was predictable, but at best most women could only achieve a maximum of one hour and 15 minutes out of their cell each day and this was often curtailed. The experience for the small number of women on the enhanced unit was much…
6 January 2021
The prison had retained a reduced library service through a book trolley, and PE instructors provided some circuit training on exercise yards, though neither were provided consistently as the relevant staff were often cross-deployed to other duties. The indoor gym had reopened very recently which…
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