Report on HMP Frankland highlights ‘poor’ facilities for prisoners with dementia
The Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Frankland has been published, highlighting issues around prisoners with dementia.
The report, from monitoring that took place from 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2024, says:
“Dementia and elderly frail prisoners remain a problem throughout the prison; facilities remain quite poor and there are number of prisoners with dementia still in normal accommodation.
Older prisoner numbers are growing; some of the provision in accommodation and for dementia needs improvement. There are some positive initiatives in place to improve provision, including using assistive technology such as bed and fall sensors or emergency pendants, similar to those found in the community.”
The report also documents that HMP Frankland has a dementia pathway scheme.
You can read the report here: https://cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/13/2025/05/Frankland-IMB-2023-24-annual-report.pdf
If you are involved in work on dementia in prisons, please email Dementia Community on: info@dementiapublishing.community. We are undertaking some work in this area and would be keen to hear from others with relevant expertise.