[2] Participants in the scheme underwent intensive drug therapy, with prisoners who remained drug-free offered the opportunity of early release from their sentences.

In July 2004, the Independent Monitoring Board published a report which called for the worn-out Victorian wing of Nottingham Prison to be closed and urgently refurbished, as it "was becoming totally unsuitable for accommodating anybody – especially in winter when ... [temperatures in the building could] be as cold as 10 °C".

Resettlement services at Nottingham offer advice on housing and debt management, as well as assistance with employment.

[5] In January 2018 Peter Clarke, the Chief Inspector of Prisons wrote an urgent notification letter to Justice Secretary David Gauke, advising that three consecutive inspections had found the prison to be "fundamentally unsafe" and warning that there would be "further tragedies" unless safety measures were put in place.

He stated, "It appears that the problems at Nottingham are intractable and that staff there are unable to improve safety despite the fact that this failing increases the vulnerability both of those who are held in the prison and of those who work there.

Peter Clarke suspects suicides might have happened because prisoners could not face life at the "drug-ridden jail" any longer.