Material concerning unsafe or deteriorating prison conditions: FOI release

Information requested

Internal briefings, submissions, or update notes sent to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Minister for Victims and Community Safety, or DG Justice between Nov 1 to present, 2025 which warn about:

unsafe or deteriorating prison conditions prisons assessed as “end-of-life” major maintenance failures the impact of overcrowding on estate safety inability to modernise due to capital constraints

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested in Annex A.

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Attachments

• FOI 202500495799 - Information released - Annex A PDF 73.0 kB

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