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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.
27 April 2026
we found at our last inspection At our previous inspections of HMP Wormwood Scrubs in 2021 and 2025, we made the following judgements . Figure 1: HMP Wormwood Scrubs healthy prison outcomes in 2021 and 2025 At the full inspection, we found a prison with…
8 September 2025
Inspectors visited this high-profile, overcrowded London prison during a June heatwave. When we last visited, the prison was emerging from the restrictions imposed by Covid. This time, although inspectors identified many positives, they found that the healthy prison score for safety had fallen from reasonably…
9 September 2021
Wormwood Scrubs is a famous, category B, men’s local prison in west London that held just over 1,000 prisoners at the time of our inspection, of whom a third were foreign nationals, more than half were black, Asian or minority ethnic and two-thirds were unsentenced.…
11 February 2020
Time out of cell remained inadequate, with nearly 40% of prisoners locked up during the working day. Enough activity was theoretically available, sufficient for all prisoners to have at least part-time activity, but attendance was too often poor, especially in education. More needed to be…
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