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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.
10 March 2025
Stafford, holding a population of 753 men convicted of sexual offences, remained a good prison, achieving the same scores as at our last inspection in 2020. Instability of leadership had previously dogged the prison with the current governor being the fourth in four years when…
12 May 2020
information desk in the visits hall, the charity shop, the coordination of social care and the arrangement of special visits for those prisoners who would otherwise get none. HMP Stafford is a settled establishment where, to an extent, the nature of the prisoner population is…
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