Self-harm, drug use, rising violence and a rodent infestation are just some of the issues that have led to an urgent call for improvement at one of Kent’s jails. The Chief Inspector of Prisons has written to the Secretary of State to invoke an urgent notification (UN) for improvement at HMP Rochester after a damning inspection which found “a shocking level of neglect”. It has become the first category C training prison to be issued with such a notice. The latest report follows a decade of successively poor and declining inspections of the facility which was warned about concerns in an independ…
