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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Yesterday (31 July 2025), the Ministry of Justice published its Artificial Intelligence Action Plan which it says sets out how tech will cut reoffending and make streets safe. The accompanying press ...

Latest parole board budget and activityE arlier this month (17 July 2025), the Parole Board for England & Wales published its annual report & accounts for 2024/25. I have picked out ten facts from ...

Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.

The report T he joint briefing is a call to explore how the Government could use public funds differently. To investigate how the justice system could work for victims, communities, people who have ...

Numbers T he overall population of people serving an IPP sentence in prison has broadly decreased overtime. Figures published in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly show that the total prison ...

A new (21 July 2025) report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies “Smaller, but tougher: How the criminal justice system is processing young adults” examines the criminalisation of young ...