HMYOI Glen Parva closed permanently in June 2017 and was later demolished; a new prison, HMP Fosse Way, now stands on the same site in South Wigston, near Leicester. The last inspection carried out before its closure was in November 2015, and the full report can still be read on the HM Inspectorate of Prisons website, just follow the links below. In their final report on Glen Parva the inspectors said:
HMYOI Glen Parva was a young offender institution for teenage boys and young adult men, run by HM Prison Service. At the time of the November 2015 inspection, around a quarter of prisoners said they currently felt unsafe, and over half said they had felt unsafe at some point, with violence having risen and 42% reporting they had been victimised by another prisoner.
Staff-prisoner relationships were rated very good, and the prison’s leadership was praised for its work in a difficult period.
Purposeful activity was weak, with more than a quarter of young men locked in their cells during the working day, and self-harm remained a serious concern following recent deaths in custody, which were the subject of separate investigations.
Charlie Taylor
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
2016
To read the full report, go to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons website or follow the link below:
- Inspection report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons report on an announced inspection of HMYOI Glen Parva (9–13 November 2015)
Glen Parva closed for good in June 2017 as part of the Ministry of Justice’s modernisation of the prison estate, and the site was demolished. HMP Fosse Way, a new category C resettlement prison run by Serco, was built on the same footprint and opened to prisoners in May 2023. See the separate HMP Fosse Way pages on this site for current information about the prison now operating there.