Too many women are being remanded to custody, including those who are severely mentally unwell who should be receiving ...

Regular readers will know I punctuate the year with three Quizzes – Advent, Easter & August Bank Holiday. So here is your ...

The world is becoming more digital, and probation services will need to adapt. My recently published HM Inspectorate of Probation report explores how technology can help people on probation build ...

Citizens’ panel convened by Prison Reform Trust calls for comprehensive reform to sentencing A citizens’ panel made up of a representative sample of 15 members of the public has concluded that the ...

The MoJ has just published a process evaluation of the probation service pilot Victim Notification Scheme which is for victims of stalking, harassment and coercive and controlling behaviour, where the ...

Yesterday’s (27 March 2025) Criminal Court Statistics show that the backlogs in both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts continue to grow. There were 74,651 open cases at the Crown Court on 31 December 2024 ...

One of the consequences of imprisonment is that prisoners do not have the same freedom to complete day-to-day tasks and access services as they would have in the community. Their ability to get things ...

A new (27 March 2025) report by RAND Europe presents the findings from a systematic literature review on the impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide. The ...

Earlier this week (24 March 2025), the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published the latest Learning Lessons bulletin on property complaints. Property has consistently been the most common ...

It has nearly been 6 months since I joined the Parole Board as the new Chief Executive last October. It has been a busy period as different parts of the Victims & Prisoners Act were implemented, the ...

Sarah Waite’s research on women’s experiences of being in an open prison.