Article 39 director Carolyne Willow said Feltham YOI's closure was "long overdue" after young offenders aged 16 and 17 at Feltham YOI left 13 members of staff requiring hospital treatment at the weekend.
Details of how the violence began have not been released, but the institution has been criticised repeatedly over the past 30 years for confining young inmates for extended periods of time, not providing them with purposeful activity or education, and for using ineffective force and sanctions as a means of control.
A 2017 Prisons Inspectorate report stated efforts to combat "very serious" violence at Feltham including multiple assailants and the use of weapons, had been ineffective.
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