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A–D category: Category C
Category source · Checked 13 September 2026
Official guide description: Closed prison or young offender institution
Official guide · Checked 13 September 2026. This wording does not establish an A–D category.
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.
25 November 2024
Built largely in the early 1960s, Swinfen Hall is a category C training prison near Lichfield in the West Midlands. With a long history of dealing with mainly young adult men, it currently only accepts new arrivals aged 18 to 28, although half of the…
1 April 2022
we found that outcomes for prisoners had improved in our healthy prison tests of respect and purposeful activity, but safety remained a concern with, for example, high rates of violence, significant use of force and an increase in the use of PAVA incapacitant spray. We…
6 October 2021
Swinfen Hall is a category C prison for young adults and adults aged 18 to 28, mostly serving sentences of over four years. At the time of our inspection, it contained 531 prisoners of whom nearly half were from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Within…
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