The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose.

A much shorter than usual blog post today but I thought you might find these links useful. Yesterday (15 July), the MoJ published a map of all its properties as well as lists of them all divided into ...

Tragically, the PPO started investigations into 486 deaths last year, a 35% increase on the year before. 2 There were 398 deaths in prisons (106 more than last year). 73 people died in the first 14 ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

C hildren and young people have told an Inquiry conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in Police Custody (APPG) that being detained in a police cell can be a highly traumatic ...

Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

Y esterday (23 June 2025) an expert working group led by a former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales published a report with considered proposals aimed at protecting the public while ending the ...