Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Berwyn

Abstract: This report represents the findings of the Independent Monitoring Board of HMP Berwyn for the period 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2018. The IMB evidence comes from observations made on visits, scrutiny of records and data, contact with the men and staff, surveys and applications to the IMB. Given that this is the first annual report of the first prison to be built and managed by the Prison Service for 30 years and that it is operating a new rehabilitative regime, it has been necessary to include a higher level of explanatory information than would be usual. It is not possible to report simply ‘by exception’ without a base document and this, the first annual report of the IMB, is that base document.