Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has used the publication of his annual report to call for an independent ...

In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up ...

The Magistrates’ Association has warned that a lack of accessible, useable justice data in England and Wales is undermining ...

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 ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...

Many of us like to keep up with the latest developments in criminal justice by reading a range of blogs. Some, like mine, are mainly factual, reporting on the latest research, policy and practice.

This is the second in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at Chapter Two of Mr Gauke’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest article to emerge from the longitudinal research conducted with life sentence prisoners by Professor Ben Crewe and his colleagues at the Institute of Criminology is particularly fascinating ...

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 ...