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A–D category: Not yet verified.
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.
3 April 2024
HMP Wymott in Lancashire is a category C training prison with a large mixed population of 1,182 prisoners, of whom over half were convicted of a sexual offence. There had been a failure by senior leaders to invest in the prison. The kitchen was in…
29 September 2020
reasonable but Listeners (see Glossary of terms) were unable to provide ongoing support to those in crisis, which needed addressing urgently. In our survey, 16% of prisoners said that they currently felt unsafe, and the reasons behind this needed exploring to understand fully what this…
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