Last inspectedJuly 2022Full inspection, unannounced
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons report published 21 October 2022; visiting details from GOV.UK · last checked 29 October 2026
Latest inspection
At its last full inspection (July 2022; report published October 2022), inspectors found outcomes for prisoners were not sufficiently good for purposeful activity; reasonably good for safety, respect and rehabilitation and release planning. It held 662 people at the time, against an operational capacity of 710.
Healthy prison tests: inspectors grade four areas from 1 (poor) to 4 (good).
Inspection history
Safety: reasonably good · Respect: reasonably good · Purposeful activity: not sufficiently good · Rehabilitation and release planning: reasonably good Read our story
The Devon training prison improved in three of four areas since 2018, inspectors found, but newly arrived vulnerable men were placed in dirty cells and faced alleged violence and intimidation.
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