Last inspectedMay 2022Full inspection, unannounced
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons report published 19 August 2022; visiting details from GOV.UK · last checked 29 October 2026
Latest inspection
At its last full inspection (May 2022; report published August 2022), inspectors found outcomes for prisoners were not sufficiently good for purposeful activity; reasonably good for respect and rehabilitation and release planning; good for safety. It held 227 people at the time, against an operational capacity of 241.
Healthy prison tests: inspectors grade four areas from 1 (poor) to 4 (good).
Inspection history
Safety: good · Respect: reasonably good · Purposeful activity: not sufficiently good · Rehabilitation and release planning: reasonably good Read our story
The Buckinghamshire open prison had regained its sense of purpose after the pandemic, inspectors found, but men slept in 1960s huts that were beyond repair and too few worked outside the gates.
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