Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has used the publication of his annual report to call for an independent body to scrutinise staff conduct.
The Magistrates’ Association has warned that a lack of accessible, useable justice data in England and Wales is undermining ...
In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up ...
Earlier this week (1 July 2026), the government announced the launch of an independent review of the prison system to ...
N early two-thirds of people entering prison (65%) are likely to struggle with everyday literacy, while 69% are likely to ...
To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...
L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...
T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...
People given IPPs were disproportionately likely to have pre‐existing mental health problems and research documents the negative mental health implications of IPP imprisonment. The indeterminacy of ...
This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...
This is a guest post by John Harding, CBE, Pictured below) ex Chief Probation Officer for Inner London, who directed the first Home Office pilot for community service orders in Nottinghamshire from ...
Regular readers will know I punctuate the year with three Quizzes – Advent, Easter & August Bank Holiday. So here is your Summer 2024 edition. It’s a simple multiple choice test about anything and ...