Message
- Prison Staff have a difficult job; but carry it out professionally.
- We run a prison which is safe, decent and humane.
- We do work with prisoners to reduce the risk of them re-offending in order to prevent the next victim. This work is done well but does not provide a certainty that re-offending will not occur.
- We treat prisoners fairly and we must ensure decisions are taken lawfully with due account to Their rights under the propose Human Rights Act.
- A wide range of staff work in the prison and the prison itself works in partnership with other criminal justice agencies and voluntary sector partners.
- The Prison is subject to independent inspection, regular monitoring by the Panel of Visitors, to whom prisoners can make complaints.
- We welcome this degree of monitoring which ensures that what we do is always visible and checked on by people who are independent of the prison.
- The overriding motivation of all our work is to protect the public.