Today we published our 16th Annual Report on the treatment of people in detention in the UK. The report finds that repeated systemic failures undermine the dignity & human rights of those deprived of their liberty. 📄 Read the full report here: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/document/six...

For all the UK NPM's latest updates, be sure to keep up with our LinkedIn and website: ⭐️ linkedin.com/company/uk-n... ⭐️ www.nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk

HMP Leeds: critical safety concerns putting prisoners at risk. Read the report: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repo... And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/critica... See the healthy prison scores:

At the end of September, Leeds prison had room for 641 men but was being forced to hold 1,092. Chronic overcrowding has tragic consequences: https://howardleague.org/news/leeds-prison-report-reveals-the-tragic-consequences-of-chronic-overcrowding/

What happens to prisoners on a Friday? Are regimes similar to Monday to Thursday, with some access to activity, or is Friday the start of a long weekend of lock up? Sara Pennington led a team of inspectors to find out. Read the blog: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/what-ha...

With the publication of the ‘Just passing time’ thematic review, Chief Inspector, Charlie Taylor, outlines the problems with current work and training provision in adult prisons and his concerns that cuts will make things worse. Read the blog: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/what-do...

Today we published six new reports following visits to mental health services and two prisons in Scotland. Read more here: bit.ly/3KRJNNp

📢​The UKNPM Reporting Dashboard can help to quickly highlight good practice & share these examples across NPM bodies! Read how on our website: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/using-t... The Dashboard is fully updated with records from September 2025: npm-reporting.powerappsportals.com

The UK NPM has released a statement on the findings made in the BBC Panorama programme, Undercover in the Police. nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/npm-sta... It is rare that we come across the intentional infliction of pain and suffering, as seen in this documentary.

📝In our latest blog, NPM Chair Sherry Ralph reflects on her first year in post and celebrates the commitment and collaboration of NPM bodies. @custodyvisiting.bsky.social Read more on our website! nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/reflect...

ICYMI: The UK NPM has launched our Reporting Dashboard, a searchable database of all recommendations made by scrutiny bodies monitoring places of detention to prevent torture and ill-treatment in the UK. 🎞️Launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nqy... 🌐Dashboard: npm-reporting.powerappsportals.com

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Our #EnvironmentalConditionsofDetention project (@ecd-rights.bsky.social) is working to pull together as much learning as possible on these conditions. The aim is to guard against all forms of #torture. @uknpm.bsky.social Read our recent practice notes: detentionconditions.org/project-comm...

Read the Association for the Prevention of Torture's latest blog, featuring the UK NPM's own Sam Gluckstein! Sam discusses the UK NPM's ground-breaking new Reporting Dashboard, which launches in 2 weeks! Visit our website to register your attendance for the launch event. www.apt.ch/news/data-ac...

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18 July, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, was declared an International Day in 2009, which everyone is invited to mark by making a difference in their communities.

Today is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In this month’s blog, the UK NPM details what constitutes torture, and what is being done in the UK and around the world to prevent it. Find out more: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-in... #humanrights #OPCAT

Exciting news! In April, UK NPM bodies agreed to a bold new Business Plan. Building on strong achievements over 2023-25, this year we are focusing on person-centred approaches and working closely with all 21 UK NPM bodies to drive meaningful change.

Head of the UK NPM Sam Gluckstein sends thanks from Strasbourg to all the hundreds of volunteers among the NPM's 3,500 visitors, monitors and inspectors. Making sure he is heard over the traffic, a happy Volunteers Week from Sam and all of us at the NPM!

This Volunteers’ Week, the UK National Preventive Mechanism thanks the thousands of dedicated volunteers across the UK for their important contribution to the NPM mandate of preventing torture and ill treatment of people deprived of their liberty.

The NPM welcomes the publication of the MoJ's Sentencing Review, and will take some time to digest its recommendations and consider them against arguments made in our submission, which encouraged bold action to an entrenched issue. nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/indepen...

Hearing from @naomilong.bsky.social, Minister of Justice Northern Ireland, "NPM has expertise and influence. I hope we can work together to do the work needed in Northern Ireland." Issues: high remand pop. & need for community support in rehabilitation to reduce reoffending. #UKNPM2025 #OPCAT

Hearing from Cabinet Secretary @angelaconstance.bsky.social at the #UKNPM2025 annual conference, "legally and morally we need to uphold the rights of all those held in custody." Two key issues: "too high" prison population, and deaths in custody. #OPCAT #humanrights

UK NPM Chair Sherry Ralph opens the #UKNPM2025 Annual Conference in Edinburgh today, "there's no doubt that times are bleak for those deprived of their liberty in the UK today... at times the list of issues feels endless. Dig dip, be bold, keep making recommendations. Change can come." #OPCAT

ICYMI: In our latest blog post, Jane Kilpatrick explores the current state of detention in women's prisons in the UK and globally. 📖 Read the full blog: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-in... #OPCAT #HumanRights #WomenInDetention

🚨 New guidance for detention monitors & inspectors! Developed with @edinburghuni.bsky.social, the Guidance on Environmental Conditions of Detention highlights how lighting, sound, ventilation & temperature affect those deprived of liberty. 📖 nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/document/gui...

💡 Looking to make a difference in 2025? Our January blog highlights the positive impact Independent Prison Monitors have on human rights, and how HM Inspectorate of Prisons Scotland is attracting passionate volunteers. Find out more 👇 nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/2025/01/08/b...

From everyone at the NPM team, we wish you a very joyful holiday season with plenty of rest, warmth and laughter! We're leaving the office for the year now and will see you in January!

15th UK NPM annual report published today! 21 NPM bodies publish hundreds of reports each year on visits and research. This report outlines commonalities between them to point to systemic issues in settings of deprivation of liberty across the UK nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/document/fif...

2023-24 annual report published today International attention focused on prisons, youth offender institutions & immigration detention Our report also discusses settings like inpatient mental health, secure accommodation for children, police & court custody t.co/ppYz1dDRbH

Our copies of the Guidance on the Environmental Conditions of Detention arrived today! All NPM monitors can look out for their copies in the new year - raising awareness of how environmental conditions of places of detention may contribute to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture

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"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5). This #HumanRightsDay, we are launching our project website and first briefing: www.detentionconditions.org #HRD2024

The UK National Preventive Mechanism has joined NPMs from 45 other countries to contribute to the development of a global report on women in prison: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/uk-npm-...