Illicit drug accessibility in prison
HMP Berwyn received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 3 Dec 2019 and 5 Nov 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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“evidence at the inquest confirmed that the continuing availability and use of novel psychoactive substances.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ HMP Berwyn responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“the Governor of Berwyn and the Regional Substance Misuse lead for HMPPS Wales have revised the prison's Drug Strategy. This primarily focuses on restricting the availability of illicit items, ensuring that there are appropriate consequences for those found in possession, and offering appropriate support for dependent users.”
- 5 years 11 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · higha different coroner
“It was not surprising, therefore, that in our survey, 60% of prisoners said it was easy to get illicit drugs at Berwyn”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ HMP Berwyn responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to HMP Berwyn
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2019 → 2025Matthew Singh5 years 11 months after Luke Jones · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · highBoth reports highlight the ongoing availability and use of psychoactive substances within HMP Berwyn as a risk to prisoner health. They describe the same hazard—illicit drug accessibility—despite differing data and timeframes.
Luke Jones · 3 Dec 2019
“evidence at the inquest confirmed that the continuing availability and use of novel psychoactive substances.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Matthew Singh · 5 Nov 2025
“It was not surprising, therefore, that in our survey, 60% of prisoners said it was easy to get illicit drugs at Berwyn”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“the Governor of Berwyn and the Regional Substance Misuse lead for HMPPS Wales have revised the prison's Drug Strategy. This primarily focuses on restricting the availability of illicit items, ensuring that there are appropriate consequences for those found in possession, and offering appropriate support for dependent users.”
Stated action
“the Governor of Berwyn and the Regional Substance Misuse lead for HMPPS Wales have revised the prison's Drug Strategy. This primarily focuses on restricting the availability of illicit items, ensuring that there are appropriate consequences for those found in possession, and offering appropriate support for dependent users.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to HMP Berwyn at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2025 | 0.70 | 0.20 | Identical · 0.95 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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