HM Inspectorate of Prisons has called into question the prison's policy of dispersing its 18 to 21-year-old prisoners across the prison, following an unannounced inspection in April.
Inspectors found they were being accommodated on the lifers' and long-term prisoner wing, which includes 12 women on the Primrose Project, a national treatment programme for dangerous women with severe personality disorders.
Younger prisoners were no longer accommodated together separately due to "discipline problems", the inspectors found.
They urged the prison to reconsider its dispersal policy, especially the placing of young women alongside those on the Primrose Project.
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