A new (9 January 2025) report describes a study of clinical outcomes for participants of the learning disabilities and challenges (LDC) suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes. The LDC ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons highlights the importance of reading in prison and says some jails have created vibrant reading cultures. A new report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons published today (13 ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

C links’ new (30 January 2025) report, written by Drs Ruth Armstrong & Shona Minson, ‘ Justice Changes Her Face’: What Women’s Problem-Solving Courts can teach us about taking a Community Based Whole ...

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 ...

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 the third in a series of occasional posts on the work that EP: IC Consultants have undertaken consulting with people in prison on a series of health-related issues. Dr Lucy Wainwright, Donna ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

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 ...

Gemma Buckland from Transition to Adulthood Alliance (T2A) reviews the evidence on working with young adults in contact with the justice system for the Clinks Evidence Library.