[1] In October 2007, a report from the Independent Monitoring Board claimed that prisoners at Wayland were being given inadequate mental health care by the NHS.

Inspectors were also concerned that the healthcare department and reception facilities for new inmates were not adequate for the increased number of prisoners at the jail.

[3] In August 2016 the prison governor, Paul Cawkwell, was severely beaten by an inmate in the canteen.

[7] The prison provides a range of workshops and training facilities as well as an education department which focuses on basic key skills.

There is a visitors' centre offering refreshments and a play area for prisoners' children in the visits room.