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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.
12 May 2025
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Wandsworth by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 31 March – 2 April 2025. A new governor had brought energy and focus to tackle safety and decency, and there was a revived sense of purpose at the…
6 August 2024
Built 170 years ago, Wandsworth prison in south London has come to epitomise the decaying inner city Victorian institution, symbolic of the problems that characterise what is worst. An overcrowded reception prison with a significant turnover of population, at the time of the inspection it…
9 May 2024
Urgent Notification letter, issued on 8 May 2024 Debriefing paper for the inspection of HMP Wandsworth by HM Inspectorate of Prisons 22nd April to 2nd May 2024 This paper represents the material presented at the full inspection debrief by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. The material…
29 July 2022
we found it was reasonable or better in six of the 12 areas reviewed. 1.4 It was good to see substantial improvements in the governance of use of force. Leaders had established robust oversight of incidents and took appropriate action when they identified poor practice…
6 January 2022
The decision by the prison service to reduce the number of prisoners held at Wandsworth by 300, as well as the work of the dynamic and experienced governor, had stopped this busy local prison from being overwhelmed by its many challenges. There were not enough…
13 July 2018
might be for the staff to deal with the dirty and untidy wing offices that I saw throughout the jail, and to encourage the prisoners to take pride in their surroundings. In common with many other prisons of this type, prisoners at Wandsworth had far…
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