Inspections at HMP Humber

The prison was given a full inspection in November/December 2023, the full report can be read on the HM Inspectorate of Prisons website, just follow the links below. In their latest report the inspectors said:

HMP Humber is a category C training and resettlement prison near Everthorpe, East Yorkshire, run by HM Prison and Probation Service, formed in 2014 from the merger of HMP Everthorpe and HMP Wolds. It holds 1,012 prisoners against an in-use operational capacity of 1,019, on a large, sprawling site with varied accommodation. Inspectors described it as a settled and very well-led establishment at its first full inspection since 2017, rating safety Reasonably Good, an improvement, and respect and preparation for release both Reasonably Good, unchanged, while purposeful activity remained Not Sufficiently Good, the weakest area at both inspections.

Sixty-seven per cent of prisoners surveyed said most staff treated them with respect, violence rates remained lower than at similar prisons, and only 18% said they currently felt unsafe, broadly in line with comparators. Inspectors noted positive peer-support initiatives across the establishment.

Even so, only around 40% of prisoners were engaged in purposeful activity, with insufficient education, skills and work places for around a quarter of the population. Over half said it was easy to get illicit drugs, and there had been six self-inflicted deaths since the 2017 inspection along with around 500 use-of-force incidents in the previous 12 months; inspectors found body-worn cameras were often not activated early enough to capture incidents in full. Around 10% of releases were to no fixed abode and only 36% to sustainable accommodation, and healthcare for prisoners with long-term conditions was inconsistent.

Charlie Taylor
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
January 2024

HMP Humber

To read the full reports, go to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons website or follow the links below: