[3][4] Proposals made to distance HMP Feltham from its reputation included a renaming such as to 'HMP Bedfont Lakes'; receiving scant support.

Another inspection was made in July 2013 which was critical of what was considered "an excessive use of force" by prison staff in some incidents which had taken place in 2012 and "unacceptably high levels of violence" in the institution.

The Howard League for Penal Reform said that the report revealed the prison to be a "frightening, violent, ineffective and astoundingly costly institution".

[7] On 4 September 2013, the Ministry of Justice announced that it was undertaking a feasibility study on replacing the existing buildings at Feltham with a new larger adult prison and youth detention centre.

[9] The prison is making inroads towards pacifying inmates with violence indicators who self-identify as violent gang members and behave, initially, accordingly.

The prison's regime includes education (full/part-time), workshops, vocational training in the construction industry, farms and gardens, works, and NVQs.

An unannounced inspection of 2017 found that the juvenile units, taken together were not safe for either staff or boys, and that violence had increased in the section for older young men;[13] prompting a Commons debate.