M any penal reformers see the review as a chance to re-balance the system, increasing the use of community sentences and ...

L ast week (17 October 2024) NHS England published its latest survey of secondary school pupils in England in years 7 to 11 ...

The Howard League has set up a hotline to advise people on IPP sentences about the new arrangements for terminating their ...

Advanced technology has increased the breadth, scale and sophistication of cyber crime. How can cyber security evolve to ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Executive of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Every year, the Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on the number of people in prison accessing education.

In January 2020 the prison inspectorate published a thematic report, Separation of children in young offender institutions. The findings were shocking: children were subject to widespread solitary ...

The latest (27 September 2024) report in the Probation Inspectorate’s Academic Insight series is entitled: Building choice in domestic abuse perpetrator interventions: reflections on what clients, ...

The Prison Inspectorate’s annual report, published earlier this month, highlighted ongoing failings in purposeful activity with 30 out of 32 closed prisons inspected in 2023-24 being poor or not ...

We at the Parole Board appreciate that the parole process can be complicated to navigate for prisoners going through it and for others affected by the process, such as victims and survivors of crime, ...

In 2019 Joseph McCann was sentenced to 33 life sentences for committing violent and sexual offences whilst subject to supervision by the National Probation Service (NPS), following his release from ...