HMP Aylesbury ‘thrown into chaos’ by MoJ policy change, says watchdog

HMP Aylesbury, pictured, is a now a ‘chaotic’ prison, which is releasing prisoners with ‘little or no work’ to reduce their risk of committing crimes again, the watchdog said. Photograph: Parmorama/Alamy

A prison which specialised in people convicted of violent crimes has been “thrown into chaos” by a policy change introduced by Dominic Raab’s Ministry of Justice to cope with a national rise in inmate numbers, an official watchdog has found.

HMP Aylesbury was “suddenly and without sufficient consultation, notice or support” changed into a category C training prison in October, the chief inspector of prisons said.