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

The prisons list shows the name of every establishments, its role, whether it is a public or contracted out prison, its ...

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

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

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

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.

Miranda Bevan, King's College London, guest blogs on new research from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in ...

Clare Birtwistle of Manchester Metropolitan University guest blogs on reducing the over-representation of looked after children in the CJS ...

Alexandria Bradley & Sarah Waite guest blog on their qualitative evaluation of Greater Manchester's women's problem-solving court.

The chart I’ve reproduced below shows the overall rates of identified needs, for those with an OASys Layer 3 on 31 October 2024 comparing the custody and community caseloads overall. Of those with a ...