A PRISON that aims to rehabilitate high-risk sex offenders has failed to prepare effectively for their release and is plagued by staff shortages, inspectors will warn today. 

HMP Isle of Wight returns one or two prisoners to the community each month, but in a report the prisons inspectorate said that inmates were not always identified or properly discussed before release to ensure “robust risk management plans” were in place.  

Staffing shortages, which are a problem across the austerity-hit sector, were “particularly acute” at the site, which is a specialist “training prison” with a focus on rehabilitation.