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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer/Resettlement
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.
11 May 2026
HM Prison Wayland is a category C training and resettlement prison near Thetford in Norfolk, holding just over 800 adult men at the time of this inspection. First opened in the mid-1980s, it is a campus style institution with accommodation units of varying designs. The…
2 May 2023
we found a prison characterised by staff shortfalls, a lack of activity and poor behaviour management. Outcomes had deteriorated in our tests of purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning and remained not sufficiently good in safety. 1.2 Our previous inspections of HMP Wayland in…
12 August 2022
HMP Wayland is a category C training prison near Thetford in Norfolk that held 890 prisoners when we inspected in April this year. The remote location on an old RAF base on the edge of Thetford forest has made the recruitment of staff very difficult…
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