A n Action Plan for Oakhill Secure Training Centre (STC) is due this month from the Justice Ministry to address profound and systemic failures identified there by Ofsted. Three publicly run Young ...

The process has been protracted – the results were originally due to be announced in autumn 2024, with the new contracts starting from April this year – and is the culmination of work to create a new ...

Dame Owers sums the whole issue neatly in her introduction: ...

In the 12 months to March 2025, the rate of self-harm was 899 incidents per 1,000 prisoners (77,898 incidents), up 6% from ...

T he Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, ...

Y esterday (31 July 2025), the Ministry of Justice published its Artificial Intelligence Action Pla n which it says sets out ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

Findings The main findings of the report were: The total estimated economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion. The estimated economic and social cost of reoffending by adults was £16.7 ...