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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Reception
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.
23 February 2026
New leaders had begun to drive progress. Improvements in health care were particularly noteworthy, the quality of teaching was better, and there were more effective processes to allocate men to activities. Support for those at risk of self-harm was more robust. However, there was still…
12 May 2025
Thameside is a large, modern category B reception prison in South East London and held 1,213 men at the time of this inspection. On this visit, levels of violence were much higher than at our 2021 inspection and were often caused by gang issues and…
1 March 2022
Thameside is a modern category B local prison in south-east London that contained 1,194 prisoners at the time of our inspection. Around 60% of those held were on remand or unsentenced and almost a quarter were category C prisoners who were often at the end…
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