Inspectors found the highest positive drug-testing rate of any reception prison and rated purposeful activity poor, though staff-prisoner relationships remained a real strength.
Inspectors rated England's largest women's prison reasonably good on three of four tests. They raised concerns about mentally unwell women, drug withdrawal care and too little time out of cell.
Inspectors found drugs flown in by drones were fuelling violence, debt and bullying at the Oxfordshire prison, where over half of men were locked up during the working day.
Inspectors rated HMP Leeds poor for safety and purposeful activity after finding that outcomes had fallen across every healthy prison test since 2022.
Inspectors found strong relationships between staff and prisoners at the Liverpool jail, but a third of men had no work or education and a drug testing rate among the highest for similar prisons.
Inspectors found the north London prison unsafe and chaotic, with men locked up for more than 22 hours a day and some held past their release date. The findings led to an Urgent Notification.
Inspectors found the West Yorkshire high-security prison under strain, with failing infrastructure, rising violence and poor access to activity, although health care had improved significantly.
Inspectors found calm, well-staffed short-term immigration holding facilities at Larne House, Pennine House in Manchester and Swinderby, but raised concerns about night-time moves, care for vulnerable people and the separation of women.
Inspectors lifted the women's prison's safety grade from poor and praised its governor, but found very unwell women held for too long and too little to do.
Inspectors found some improvement at the Worcestershire reception prison, but violence remained above similar jails, new arrivals had little to do and four governors had come and gone in three years.
