Shadow Prisons Minister Jo Stevens, commenting on Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on Woodhill prison, published today (Tuesday 15 March), said:

“Another day, another appalling report into the state of our prisons. The high levels of self-inflicted deaths at Woodhill are extremely concerning, as is the fact that the prison management have failed to implement previous recommendations or act on past warnings by the Ombudsman.

“No one can disagree with the government’s stated aim to improve education in our prisons but it is difficult to see how there can be any real focus on learning when one in five offenders at Woodhill say they feel unsafe in the prison.”